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IPhone and iPod Touch.
Peter Birch, Google product manager, wrote: "Before we launched Google Earth in 2005, the team had always dreamed of carrying the Earth in your pocket, "On a blog at the company on Monday.
"It may be small, but it brings all the power of Google Earth to your palm, including all the same global images and 3D terrain.
"The software is available free of charge to iPhone and iPod Touch in 22 countries including Canada through Apple's App Store.
Like the desktop computer version, mobile Google Earth uses satellite photos to render three-
The dimension Earth that users can "fly.
The user can enter a location, fly to it, then look at it from the air, and then zoom in or out using the touch screen of the iPhone and iPod.
There are also photos and Wikipedia articles related to it in many places, and users can view them by touching the icons on the screen.
The mobile version of the software also uses motion sensors on the iPhone and iPod Touch, and users can view three
3D terrain-
Mountain-
By tilting their equipment.
The IPhone version of Google Earth also takes advantage of the device's GPS feature, where users can search for locations or businesses nearby.
Google is considering expanding its search.
Ads enter mobile software.
"Geographic maps is a great opportunity as a business for Google.
If we don't see it as a major bottom, we won't be in it.
Birch told CNET . "
"We are also studying and experimenting with advertising on Earth.
"Although called data
Dense applications, Google Earth has been well compressed in its mobile version. In a 10-
Minutes of testing sessions, mobile Google Earth used slightly more than five megabytes of data on Rogers Communications
3g wireless network.
However, like many 3g apps, mobile Google Earth quickly ran out of the iPhone's battery.
The mobile version of the software lacks some desktop functions, such as three-
3D building models, Birch says, but Google is trying to add them.