Question: I'm just wondering how to fire up an Intent to the phone's browser to open an specific URL and display it.

Can someone please give me a hint?

Answer: 
The shortest version.

```
startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://www.google.com")));

```
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> "Is there also a way to pass coords directly to google maps to display?"
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I have found that if I pass a URL containing the coords to the browser, Android asks if I want the browser or the Maps app, as long as the user hasn't chosen the browser as the default. See my answer [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5842144/sharing-map-based-location/6183565#6183565) for more info on the formating of the URL.

I guess if you used an intent to launch the Maps App with the coords, that would work also.