Google Earth iPhone app
by KUMIKO YAMAZAKI on October 31, 2008 • google earth iphone review • 2 COMMENTSSeveral days late but I finally got around to downloading the Google Earth iPhone app.
First thing to note is that it takes about 5 seconds to fully launch. However, once I got to panning and zooming, the images rendered rather quickly and was responsive to all my touching and pinching and tilting. (This was on my home wi-fi.. trying to use Google Earth on the Edge network will more than likely be painfully slow. Don’t bother.)
The app as we all know is free, and comes with both the Wikipedia and Panoramio layers in addition to the standard borders and labels. Currently there’s no way to overlay any other additional features but surely it’s only a matter of time.
Here’s an amateur video of me trying to use the Google Earth app very early on. You’d think I’m an iPhone noob after seeing me struggle to click on a Wikipedia article. My excuse: the iPhone accelerometer is too sensitive!
Google Earth iPhone app from kumiko on Vimeo.
Glad you finally got around to the downloading GE. Nice video too, appropriate song! I want to hear more about your experience with Google Earth on your iphone after you play with it more. I’m so jealous!
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