But unless you actually are a bird, the feature won't be of much practical use for navigation.
For instance, when entering an address for navigation, you can use the traditional scroll wheel, which works pretty well.
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Big city folk, you're going to have one significant qualm with the new Maps: there are no public transportation options for navigation.
That is good enough for navigation of the sort the Vikings managed.
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Containers lost at sea are not only hazards for navigation but also contribute to the growing amount of debris in the ocean.
Instead the phone relies predominantly on soft touch and gesture for navigation.
"What H4 was doing is still current today because in GPS, for example, accurate time standards are required for navigation, " said Jonathan Betts.
Indeed he probably believed that the stars were more useful for horoscopes than for navigation, but he was refreshingly open to new ideas.
Adblock Plus is a two-year-old hobby for its creator, Wladimir Palant, a 28-year-old programmer in Cologne, Germany who works for navigation firm TomTom International.
Homing pigeons can travel from up to 400 miles away in a single day - using magnetic fields as well as sight for navigation.
For a phone which uses touch input as its main vehicle for navigation, relegating that experience to a single digit is really kind of bogus.
Still, the highly touted NavPix feature was so useful for navigation that the reviewer claims it will be emulated " much like the iPod clickwheel" soon enough.
This included a weekend in a remote area of North Carolina when my cell signal was roaming and several car rides when I used BlackBerry Maps for navigation.
The current iteration of Google Glass has a camera and microphone for audio and video recording, a touchpad for navigation and a gyroscope, accelerometers along with other sensors.
The button layout is also different, as it uses the standard three capacitive buttons for navigation instead of the special tablet-specific menus found in Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich.
Since the embedded gyroscopes are used along with the d-pad and analog stick for navigation, selecting the right menu option feels akin to whack-a-mole -- unless the controller is held impossibly still.
"Personally, I think the iPad is too big for car navigation use, but the customer is always right, " says Marcus Thielking, chief marketing officer for navigation software firm Skobbler.
Maki Sugimoto, a surgeon at Japan's Kobe University Hospital who began using replicas of patients' organs for navigation purposes in 2011, employs Japanese company Fasotec Co. to produce the 3-D models.
The Storm posed a special challenge for RIM because the company's operating system had always been tailored to a keyboard and click-wheel or track-ball for navigation, rather than a touch screen.
The landowners had argued that a waterway must have a history of commercial use to be subject to common law, which says the public has the right to use it for navigation.
For a consumer device, the BlackBerry Z10 reaches the baseline, and while it takes a little getting used to, a week or so with the smartphone and the main gestures that replace a hardware key for navigation become intuitive and easily remembered.
You can also search for a business by name or category and get directions that way, but if you have your Android phone paired, you can just use Maps normally and then, when asking for navigation, the phone will inquire whether you'd like to use Glass.
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The problem is that this separation between mouse navigation (for the two Desktop panels) and keyboard navigation (for the Metro panel) keeps breaking down -- either because a particular Metro app refuses to respond to the keyboard, or because Metro is just unable to do everything I want to do on that panel.
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"This partnership with TomTom underlines HTC's commitment to giving our customers an innovative navigation experience that is natural and provides unique enhancements for common navigation needs, " said John Wang, Chief Marketing Officer, HTC Corporation.
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The gestures RIM's built in for seamless navigation take some getting used to and the same goes for its much-vaunted, touch-based keyboard.
Additionally, it features a G-Sensor with auto-rotation, e-Compass and Gyroscope for sophisticated navigation applications.
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You also have access to the programming guide, and a full remote control for familiar navigation.
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This edition has been converted from a public domain text and adds hypertext browsing for quick navigation.
Audi already uses a tiny touchpad in its some of its models to afford fingertip handwriting recognition for entering navigation addresses.
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