This is one of the coolest Windows Mobile apps i’ve seen in quite awhile. It’s Windows Live Search for Mobile, essentially mobile version of Windows Live Local Search, which it itself similar to Google Maps combined with Google Earth. With it, you can search for any address or business and view it on a map (regular or arial hybrid), but that’s just a start. You can get instant directions from one location to another, see real-time traffic information, and if you have a GPS receiver, put all of that onto a real-time scrolling view of your exact location, which can include turn-by-turn driving instructions. All of the data is downloaded on the fly, so you need a Windows Mobile device with a mobile data connection, preferably a PDA phone.
In trying it out, I found that sometimes my download speeds weren’t fast enough to quite keep up with my vehicle speed so some of the images would remain missing as I went. Still, this is one of the more fun apps I’ve seen and it came out just in time for me as I’m headed to a city I’ve never been to before next week on a business trip. You better believe that this will be guiding me from the airport to my destination. Pocket PC Thoughts has a nice review of the application here, and you can download it for free and try it for yourself (it’s in beta) here. It’s available for Windows Mobile as well as J2ME phones.
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