The standard in-car global positioning or GPS devices will face stiff competition in the form of smart phones using the Android system. For those who are not current with the latest technology, Android is a mobile phone operating system developed by Google. Android phones can now have a software update and this includes some new features like turn navigation and the ability of Google Street View, which will be beneficial for those who have GPS installed in cars.Competing in the car to GPS devices, the Android-powered smartphones are able to work as one of them especially with the step by step the features to turn in an entry on the destination will provide instructions for the place. What really sets the smartphone in the GPS devices is that these smart phones are constantly connected to the Internet, so that maps and road directions to the places always accurate and updated. Unlike the autonomous GPS navigation systems, these phones do not have to be linked to the computer to receive regular updates on the map, and that in itself is the mini computers with Internet connection.
These Android phones also use the Google search index so it is easier to find your destination as there is no need to enter the entire address to get the result. Only the name of the building would be enough to make it safely to its destination. There is also an option to use real-time traffic, information visualization as a superposition of the routes, like the Google map function available on the iPhone.
