Developers are getting their teeth into Google’s new Android mobile platform, and the results promise to be a cut above most of the mobile applications we’ve seen before. Take Enkin as an example: it’s a GPS navigation application that blends live video, 3D graphics and sundry Web 2.0 services.
It’s been developed by Rafael Spring and Max Braun, two German students entering the Google Android Developer Challenge. The app has three modes: a topdown 2D map viewer, a Google Earth style 3D landscape, and a live video mode. Meanwhile, much of the UI for the application is based around rolling and tilting your mobile phone. Accelerometer-tastic!
So, it’s a work in progress for now, with no commercial launch date in mind. But judging by the demonstration video on the Enkin site, it deserves to be picked up by someone for a big commercial push once Android handsets are available.
(via Wireless Watch Japan)
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