With the official release of the Google Phone Nexus One, also more software details can be discovered. There where a lot of rumours before the official press release from Google for the Nexus One. Most of them cover Hardware issues of the phone manufactured by HTC. Even though the hardware and form factor of the handset is stunning, I’ll talk only about the map software provided with Android 2.1.

First it can be discovered that Google Earth is now also available for Android. So beside the iPhone OS, Android is the second mobile platform, were Google Earth was ported. It is no surprise that tries to bring all their software and services on their promoted platform. A glimpse of the software can be seen in following promotion video (stating at 1:05 min)

Google Maps Mobile for Android is becoming Google Maps Navigation. The new version enhances navigation features and is pre-installed on the Nexus One. It can be assumed that this version will appear in the Android Market soon. View the video so see the new possibilities with Google Maps Navigation. Some highlights are:

turn-by-turn navigation at street view level

direction location can be various search terminologies

Of course this version includes all the other new features Google has launched in the past year, such as Google Latitude, layers, and labs.

More promotion videos: http://www.youtube.com/googlenexusone