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Get Google Maps Navigation on Your T-Mobile G1

by jdorfman on November 12, 2009

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Kevin Purdy over at LifeHacker found a cool little hack for all of you T-Mobile G1 owners!

Google’s awe-inducing, turn-by-turn Maps Navigation is exclusive to Verizon’s Droid phone—unless you’re willing to hack around with your G1. With either some command-line-fu or a two-part Windows application, you can put Google Maps Navigation on a rooted G1.By “rooted,” we mean a G1 running the latest Cyanogen custom ROM and here’s the wiki guide to installing it. Installing this hack, like rooting your phone, totally voids your support options from T-Mobile or other provider, and we can’t recommend backing up your G1 highly enough before you launch on this endeavor.

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