What was first unveiled exclusively on the Motorola Droid is now available to the rest of the Android gang. If you’ve got an Android phone running version 1.6, you’ll be able to download the new Google Maps Navigation application for free off the Android Market from today.

Android 1.6 phones in the US currently include the currently available T-Mobile mytouch 3G, the G1 and the HTC Tattoo, as well as the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. However handsets like the HTC Hero, Droid Eris, Samsung Moment and the Samsung Behold II all run Android 1.5 so won’t be getting the new feature.

While you will get features like turn by turn voice guidance and automatic rerouting, some features of Android 2.0 are not available on Android 1.6, for example, the ability to use the “navigate to” voice command. Nevertheless, if you’re an Android user with the eligible phones mentioned above in the US, you’re definitely in luck and the likes of TomTom, Garmin will no doubt be banging their heads against the wall with this news. If you’re in the UK / non-US, it looks like there could be an unofficial way to get this working on your Android phone, this will mean abit of tweaking around but watch this space.

[via Pocket-Lint, Daily Mobile]