Google has started rolling out the updated version of its Google Maps app to phones with Android 4.0.3 or higher and iPad App Coming Soon...
If you've been running the Maps app that Google released for iOS back in December (three months after Apple ditched Google Maps in favor of their own, not-at-all-ready-for-prime-time app), the new Android interface probably looks pretty familiar. The core of the interface, that big ol' full screen map view, is almost identical on both platforms now. The menus which once dropped down now slide out from a drawer on the side, instead.
Interfaces aside, this new Android release has a few tricks that it's iPhone counterpart doesn't have (quite yet):
§ Realtime traffic rerouting — If an accident happens on the road ahead and an alternative route would now be the faster one, Maps will reroute accordingly.
§ Traffic Incident Reports — If an accident is reported, its location and description will appear on the map. Curiously, Google says neither this feature nor the aforementioned rerouting make use of the Waze technology Google acquired last month.
§ Explore — A new way to browse and discover popular local places to eat, drink, shop, play and sleep
Note:
This will result for all the android users in next few weeks
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