Google Offering Live Traffic Maps via Cell Phones

Kranfer writes "Reuters is covering the newest offering from Google: real-time traffic mapping on your cell phone. Now you can check how the traffic is ahead of you, of course as long as you don't cause the traffic incident yourself by checking the local issues on your cell phone while driving. Point your cell phone browser to http://google.com/gmm to get your local traffic maps if you live within one of the 30 U.S. cities where this is available."

Palm no go

[bucketoftruth]

Note: Maps does not currently work with Nextel, T-Mobile USA or BREW-enabled phones (e.g. Verizon, Alltel, U.S. Cellular), or Palm devices.

Doesn't work on my Treo 650. This is made for small cell phone people, who are different than us big cell phone people. I hope they choke on their tiny lozenge sized phones.

Re:Windows mobile?

[Valthan]

http://google.com/gmm/devices.html [slashdot.org]>Here is a listing of the supported phone's make and model. Check it out.

Re:I don't like this

[babtrek]

I don't think its any more dangerous than the navigation systems in many cars now, now if they could make it talk to warn of problems.

Re:I don't like this

[generic-man]

Seeing as though both Windows Live Local [live.com] (JavaScript) and Yahoo! Maps Beta [yahoo.com] (Flash) already let you view live traffic on the web, I'd guess it's only a matter of time before Google adds traffic as an option to their full-scale mapping app.

Re:Windows mobile?

[Stavr0]

Can Windows Mobile handle J2ME?
Not out of the box, but you can get a J2ME engine from IBM that supports several combinations of OS/Hardware: IBM WEME [ibm.com]

There's a few other JVMs for WM out there, i.e Mysaifu.