If you are an owner of an Android smartphone in need of a maps and navigation application you might like to know that ROUTE 66 has now released the ROUTE 66 Maps + Navigation Android app for download to your chosen Android device delivering mapping and navigation along with 3D enhanced location content and Follow Me Augmented Reality Navigation.

The ROUTE 66 Maps + Navigation app for Android is a feature packed mapping and navigation solution for Android smartphones and tablets delivering on-board and off-board access to maps in over 100 countries.

The VP of marketing for ROUTE 66, Paul Warmer says the ROUTE 66 Maps + Navigation provides the future of navigation, today, and the Follow Me feature is a breakthrough in navigation that goes beyond anything else available for tablet and smartphone.

The Follow Me augmented reality feature delivers a smart and innovative fun way to reach your destination with a single tap of the display during navigation the user can switch to Follow Me that shows the real road ahead and adds a realistic virtual car to the display that guide you to your destination.

The ROUTE 66 Maps + Navigation app delivers free lifetime access to 104 different maps and utilises 3D graphics whist being loaded with info such as weather and Wikipedia. The user can explore maps in any direction with zooming, tilting, moving, rotating vie and multi-touch gestures available during turn-by-turn navigation.

For those Android users that are interested in the ROUTE 66 Maps + Navigation Android app we have a short video of the Follow Me feature being used during test drives so you can see what it is all about below.

As for the ROUTE 66 Maps + Navigation Android app you can download the application to your chosen Android device from the Android Market as a free download.

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