Google gives Windows Phone users access Maps

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Windows Phone users can have recently come back to use Googles Maps service. The blockade, which ensured that devices with Windows Phone were redirected to an other page, is by the internetgigant removed.

Google itself has no announcement about the removal of the blockade, but Windows Phone users noticed that the site is accessible again. Who on a device with Microsoft’s mobile operating system to the Maps site now gets just cards, while users were previously forwarded to the mobile Google home page. Incidentally, it appears that Places, which allows users to pois can search, is also available for Windows Phone.

Recently it turned out that the Maps service is no longer to approach was from the browser for Windows Phone devices. Google initially had a blockade set for devices that are in the user-agent string identified as Windows Phone. When the user agent was modified turned out to be the Maps-site simply to function. Google promised all the blockade to be lifted, but gave no timeframe. Now is the unblocking so quietly implemented.

As the reason for the blockade gave the internetgigant on the Internet Explorer browser that Microsoft with its mobile OS includes initially worked with the kaartendienst, but that would have to be the case.