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since its android 1.5, and not android 1.6!

donut is required]]>Nov 23rd 2009 9:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Happy: "You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?!"

-jp
]]>Nov 23rd 2009 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/

Yes I look at my G1 not as a phone mostly but as a project in hackery, that just continually makes it better even with its sub par hardware and sluggish initial performance with the standard t-mobile g1 image. Until you can hack the droid I'd have no reason to upgrade my phone...]]>Nov 23rd 2009 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/3 a : to reduce drastically especially in number b : to cause great destruction or harm to ]]>Nov 23rd 2009 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Base 10.
The Romans picked out every 10th person and killed them.
10% is not drastically reducing or great destruction.
]]>Nov 23rd 2009 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/
In ADDITION to the meaning you quoted, 'to decimate' can also mean 'to cause great destruction' (with 'great' potentially much larger than 10%). Check a dictionary: http://www.answers.com/decimation]]>Nov 23rd 2009 10:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/
I know language is a changing thing and all, but up until a couple of years ago, it had only one meaning.

It just annoys me that the understood meaning of a word is being changed through ignorance.

Try convincing a mathematician that decimal is anything other than the base 10 and see what happens.

Anyhow! We don't need to keep arguing it :)]]>Nov 23rd 2009 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/
"The earliest English sense of decimate is “to select by lot and execute every tenth soldier of (a unit).” The extended sense “destroy a great number or proportion of” developed in the 19th century." (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/decimate)]]>Nov 23rd 2009 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/
But yeah to repeat someone else's point it CANNOT I repeat CANNOT BE INSTALLED ON THE HERO

The current modification to the obex and build.init files will only enable it to be used on Donut devices. The current build of HTC Sense is based on the 1.5 framework and is therefore incompatible. HTC has also stated that they will be passing over 1.6 for HTC Sense and will be going directly to 2.0 and would therefore get Google Nav natively so unless it can be ported all the way back to cupcake then theres no point in bothering to attempt to mod it on to the Hero

Sorry didn't mean for that to come off as a rant, just wanted to get the technical points of that across :)]]>Nov 23rd 2009 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/
This has ZERO chance to brick a phone!]]>Nov 23rd 2009 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/
isn't the whole android about being open source allowing users to install what they want. It's a joke and a mistake that it wasn't originally included in the milestone for two reasons:
1. the name Milestone is kind of related to navigation!
2. It would sway a whole lot of customers to buy the milestone]]>Nov 23rd 2009 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/
lets hope they dont make that 'mistake' again, because this will boost their sales, while themselves not breaking the agreements they have on the non US maps (their contract prevents them from using them for turn by turn) until they do get the right to use turn by turn on those area's ]]>Nov 23rd 2009 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/
In addition, XDA is down, but here is the link to the post:

http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fforum.xda-developers.com%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D583123

That's how it appeared 11 hours ago, when the fix was already posted. All links in the post are still live. ]]>Nov 23rd 2009 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/
I was unsure whether I still wanted a Droid (Or rather, Milestone) when i heard about this.

Of course the other factor is is it a Google Experience or "With Google" device?

If it is, I'll order one from Italy without hesitation.

If not... well, then I still have some thinking to do : /]]>Nov 23rd 2009 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/23/google-maps-navigation-hacked-for-extra-american-use/Nov 23rd 2009 11:23AM