HERE Maps beta available to all Android 4.4 devices and up

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sonyxperiageek

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#1160313 22-Oct-2014 20:54

Comparison to Google Maps: It can give you turn-by-turn voice guidance and navigation without having to have an active internet connection; can also give you public transport routes (not sure if available in NZ this feature..).

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#1160353 22-Oct-2014 22:36

richms: Google offline is crap as I found out in china where there is no google without vpn and Internet is universally awful.

Here maps isn't going to help you out much with navigation in China in any form as it is an unsupported country (along with most of Asia).

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#1160521 23-Oct-2014 10:29

hamish225: ooooh i hope they do this for iphone, i loved it on my windows phone, but i gave that up for my iphone thank you telecom :)

Here maps has been on iPhone for at least a couple of years.
I'm not sure its as full featured as this release, don't remember it having voice-turn-by-turn directions.

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#1160925 23-Oct-2014 19:50

farcus: Here maps isn't going to help you out much with navigation in China in any form as it is an unsupported country (along with most of Asia).

There is a 2.7Gb download in offline maps for china, bigger than singapore - 156Mb

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#1160928 23-Oct-2014 20:02

I had a quick play with it last night and was looking at the navigation options. It told me I could walk from Lower Hutt into Wellington via the Eastbourne Ferry (which supposedly sailed at midnight). Me thinks there are a few flaws with their data!

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#1161093 24-Oct-2014 00:12

Try turning the map to landscape. Only Drive goes landscape.

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#1161135 24-Oct-2014 08:02

And that's why I won't be using HERE just yet. When the phone is mounted in the car the app must run in landscape. Searching for destinations is ugly when the app is locked in portrait.

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#1161145 24-Oct-2014 08:48

sbiddle: I had a quick play with it last night and was looking at the navigation options. It told me I could walk from Lower Hutt into Wellington via the Eastbourne Ferry (which supposedly sailed at midnight). Me thinks there are a few flaws with their data!

If you get the Jesus update you dont even need the ferry.

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#1161162 24-Oct-2014 09:10

BigHammer: And that's why I won't be using HERE just yet. When the phone is mounted in the car the app must run in landscape. Searching for destinations is ugly when the app is locked in portrait.

Im using Here Maps on a moto g and it works the same in both landscape and portrait modes?

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#1161173 24-Oct-2014 09:26

Only clicking to landscape in driving mode or while navigation is active for me. Can't see why it shouldn't just allow landscape when the app is first opened.

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#1161829 24-Oct-2014 23:05

I can't login to download maps or voices. Sign in via Facebook? Failed because my email isn't verified, yeah right nokia, that's a new one. Then set up a nokia account and that fails too. Sigh. I do like it when things work.

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