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what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here it's been a very Android heavy past few days I thought I'd sort of continue that trend one more day this is going to end the Android coverage of the week but I wanted to show you google earth that was just released for android 2.1 currently the only supported android 2.1 handset is the google nexus one but if you have unofficially upgraded your phone to 2.1 i suppose you have access to this as well it was came out i believe yesterday which was a 22nd and it's a free download in the android marketplace let me go ahead and jump right in show you what it looks like so there is a google earth magic had an iphone or ipod touch you've had access google or for quite a while first time that it's come to android devices perhaps surprisingly sings that's a Google product so what you'll see is a very familiar with Google Earth with the pinch and zoom there's your globe you can spin it around we've got the ability to fly in two different locations i'll show you some of the menu choices so you can search my location settings layers and help i'll show you what those are as well if you pick something like my location you can see it sort of in effect can see all the fly-ins I really takes advantage of I think the graphic acceleration in the nexus one and you can see right where you are and of course you can continue to pan around sort of the globe format there's a compass at the top to sure to help you through orientation you can see the horizon right there go and chase on the other options that you guys are going to get you want to search you can go ahead and search for whatever you'd like i'm running a strange sort of cooked rom here so when i try and search something my spacebar is not there but i assume if you're running a standard android 2.1 build build a search for whatever you'd like so there's an example pizza you can search you get sort of the google maps functionality built into google earth let me show you what else your choices are go back you also get pulling some of the layers from google maps so places businesses panoramio which actually pulls in pictures of points of interests and landmarks wikipedia kevin pulling roads borders and maples and terrains are your standard mobile google earth stuff if we go back one more you can check out some of the settings which aren't as much as you'd like you can click clear your data or about Google Earth now you don't have let's say the tilt and zoom functionality that you get on the iPhone their iPod Touch versions but you are getting a nice Google Earth experience I'm not sure the utility of Google Earth on a mobile device it seems more just something fun to play with you do get access to them at 3d terrain and that kind of thing it's nice to sort of fly over but outside of that not too sure what the usefulness of it is and of course will rotate into landscape mode as well it's fun you can sort of see directions I guess in a different way but what I run out and download this or try and force my phone to get 2.1 to get access to Google Earth Noah I definitely would not it's just one more compelling reason to one more sort of bit as to why you should Hollinger carrier to upgrade your android device officially to 2.1 there's a lot of features that you get with 2.1 that you should be entitled to so anyway that's hope you enjoy this a real quick overview here of Google Earth for the nexus one hope you've enjoyed the Android coverage of the past few days i'm jon rettinger and i'll see you in the next video bye bye