Google has found itself in a storm over its support of its
location-based service on the latest Blackberry device.
Yesterday Google released
software that allows Blackberry users to find places using
the My Location service on
Google.
According to a posting on the Google Mobile blog, "Voice can be
used in combination with the My Location feature, and it works well
with standard Google searches, such as currency conversion and
weather. So keystrokes have been reduced... to a single press of
the green button in Google Mobile App."
So for a US visitor coming to London for the first time, the
blogger suggests the tourist could do a quick voice search on
Google Mobile App, "Just pressing and holding the green button for
"Lester Square" reveals the true spelling. Leicester Square is
actually only two stops away on the Piccadilly Line. Local results
have a link to open Google Maps for mobile to guide you there."
However, users who have tried downloading it found the
application was not available on the Blackberry Storm. "This is
bull, why support all the old phones first and not the Storm?
Especially when the Storm can run older apps in compatibility mode
anyway," one user complained.
Another said, "Very sad that another Google Mobile App is not
available for the Storm. As someone said earlier, at least be up
front and tell us it is not Storm-compatible so we do not try to
get it and only get frustrated."