Google Maps J2ME Viewer
Immediate disclosure: I couldn't get this application to show me anything... but it may work for you (I'm using a 7280 on AT&T Wireless). Someone pulled together an application that runs on J2ME capable mobile phones that allows you to view Google Maps on your cell phone, it's called GMapViewer. You can read more about it here or download it with your J2ME capable cell phone / PDA here.
If you do happen to get it running on your BlackBerry, you should send an email to the author of the application so that he can update the compatability list.
May 17, 2005 in Software by ajohnson
Comments
Works on my BlackBerry (7230 / BES)
Posted by: Karel Krekel on May 19, 2005 6:42 AM
Certain versions of BB require a specific connection string to be appended to the end of each request to get it to use a WAP gateway and not the BES connection. So if you have no BES and he's using pure J2ME then you are going to run into non-portability issues to many of the BB models. I really bites because we a couple of different version of BB at my company and you have to make separate packages for each model even though you are using J2ME.
Posted by: Andy on May 21, 2005 2:39 PM
Doesn't work on my 7290. Same tunnel problem.
Where do you find more information on these connection strings?
Posted by: foo on June 9, 2005 9:09 AM
where may I download this midlet? Homesite seems no more reachable...
Posted by: topone on July 1, 2005 10:58 AM
There also a HelloWorld Map Browser made-for-Blackberry which lets you browse google maps.
Get it at www.freek.ca
Posted by: dan on August 27, 2005 8:06 AM
I would be interested if somebody try this one: http://j2memap.landspurg.net . It's also a Java interface to GoogleMap, but contains some extra features like direction finding and more. But I would be especally interested if somebody have a GPS enabeld device, as it should take care of it... Note that I have also an issue with HTTP on the first request, so just press the selection button to get rid of it....
Best regards...
Posted by: TomSoft on October 24, 2005 4:53 PM