Mobile Google Maps website now available to Windows Phone 8 users

2. _Bone_ posted on 09 Jan 2013, 16:22 1

Great publicity stunt this has been by Google.

3. motty posted on 09 Jan 2013, 16:36 0

To MS help bing.com to improve all of thier apps.

4. networkdood posted on 09 Jan 2013, 17:16 2

there, now stop your @#$ching.

5. DontHateOnS60 posted on 09 Jan 2013, 18:12 0

1 down, 2 to go. Now its time to get them moving on a Youtube app and proper Maps App.

6. phil2n posted on 09 Jan 2013, 19:02 1

but i think Nokia doesn't need this map

7. jroc74 posted on 09 Jan 2013, 20:51 0

"First, it was noticed that Windows Phone 8 devices could not access the mobile website for Google Maps................which is something Windows Phone had never been able to do."

"Google's excuse didn't fully remove suspicion though, because the reasoning was that............ IE 9 on Windows Phone 7/7.5 wasn't compatible because of limited HTML5 support, even though.......................IE 10 on WP8 had been out for two months. "

".......................It still doesn't work for WP7 users though...................."

Enough said. Never fully compatible, IE 10 just came out, still not available for WP 7 users. All this hoopla....why not just use Nokia Maps, which many claim is better anyway?

9. networkdood posted on 09 Jan 2013, 20:58 1

"UPDATE: Has Google blocked Windows Phone users from its maps.google.com site? While it might appear that way, it now seems that Internet Explorer never did support the site."

10. networkdood posted on 09 Jan 2013, 20:59 0

Why even bother using IE...lol. Firefox and Chrome are much better, and more secure/better blocking of 3rd party intrusive crappola.

11. jdep1 (banned) posted on 10 Jan 2013, 00:07 0

I personally don't use Google apps just because google collects too much info from the user & well Bing & Nokia maps work better than google maps. One app windows needs from google is YouTube.