If you saw the new pictures from a UK press event of the LG Panther, you may have noticed a new button in the Bing Maps application. It looks a lot like the a button that might be used for GPS navigation. Considering that Bing Mobile beta for Windows Mobile was recently updated to include full text-to-speech voice prompting GPS navigation features, I think it’s pretty safe to say that you’ll see that capability built into Windows Phone 7. GPS navigation is one of the important multi-tasking scenarios that we’ve become acustomed to, so hopefully Microsoft has allowed the voice prompts to persist even while accessing other applications.
Originally published on Pocketnow on May 19, 2010. More Software articles from the Pocketnow archive.