On Wednesday internet heavyweight Google introduced a free voice guided satellite application making mobile phones a credible alternative to traditional GPS.

The new application will work with Google’s extensive Google Maps feature.

“This new feature comes with everything you’d expect to find in a GPS navigation system, like 3D views, turn-by-turn voice guidance and automatic rerouting,” said Keith Ito, a Google software engineer. “But unlike most navigation systems, Google Maps Navigation was built from the ground up to take advantage of your phone’s Internet connection.”

Developed by Motorola, Droid to be sold begining November 6th by the U.S. operator Verizon, will be the first device with this feature reserved for the new version of the Android operating system developed by Google for mobile phones.

The service guide Google, which could limit the appetite of consumers for devices of TomTom or Garmin U.S., offers three-dimensional images, and voice-guided turn by turn, with real-time information on the traffic conditions.

This device presented few weeks after Garmin’s first foray into the field of mobile phones, which was generally panned by the experts.

The Droid, sold $199 after rebate, also has a physical keyboard and a camera to five million megapixels, and a video camera “DVD quality”.

This is the second device on Android introduced by Motorola in two months, illustrating the strategy to revive the supplier based on the development of sophisticated devices using the Google system.

According to marketing firm Gartner, Android phones, which are developed by HTC, and others should represent 14% of the market by 2012.

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