Google Maps for Mobiles: Google Local

Google has launched yet another application that’s bound to gain Internet favor. Google Local allows cell phone users to tap into the power of Google Maps with virtually the same functionality. You can get detailed directions from point A to B including a line denoting the exact route to take. You can zoom, move around, and see local businesses and contact information. The downloadable application is available to Java enabled phones on Cingular, Sprint, T-Mobile, and unspecified ‘others.’ Verizon, Nextel, Alltel or U.S. Cellular phones are not supported. Anybody care to give us some feedback on this new application? Does it suck? Is it slow, hard to navigate, and threaten to topple the entire Google empire?