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I consider myself an old tech geek but "Yahoo Go" rings absolutely no bells for me.

What was Google Maps for mobile in 2005? Those were flip phone days for me.

We launched on j2me flip phones and soon added support for blackberry. The displays were small and most phones didn't have GPS.

Google Maps for J2ME was one of the most impressive J2ME apps for sure. It had cell tower location for phones without GPS and even did Street View

https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3073/2874464079_0fea1bc0c0_b.j...

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2140/2220421483_f4a2ccea8a_b.j...

And here's info about Yahoo Go: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Go

FWIW I had a flip-phone with some form of Java based Google Maps IIRC. It had an Opera browser too.

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