If you're a longtime Android user, you may have to suffer one of the biggest design language shifts with Android 10 Q coming soon.
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Google Maps is now a transit guide that will poke your shoulder
You missed your stop. Great. Now you're late. Google hopes that won't be the case ever again with an upcoming update to Google Maps.
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The OverDryve 7 Review: It’s the thought that counts
In our OverDryve 7 review, we look at a navigation system built by one of the big names in mapping. Can Rand McNally successfully adapt to a changing world?
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Hands-free Google Maps voice commands keep your hands on the wheel
So, you’re travelling to somewhere you don’t know. Easy to figure out the point A to point B of things — just set Google Maps to navigation mode, clip your device to the dashboard or vent (really, we do suggest getting a clip device) and have that Google voice tell you where to turn.But if you need to grab a pit stop or some flowers along the way, you now have the ability to yell ...
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Android app design may soon cut down on the hamburger button, take a cue from iOS
It seems that Android’s about to take a step in iOS’s direction on app design. And it actually sorta makes sense.Google’s design spec now deals with what it calls “bottom navigation,” featuring a bar with top-level category options right above system navigation. The bar is intended for three to five destinations and can jump in and out of vision based on scrolling. Ironically, larger dpi screens can get a “bottom navigation” treatment with a bar on ...
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Google Maps vs. HERE Maps (Video)
Well, you asked for it. You’ve got it. When we compared Google Maps to Apple Maps this week, we found that while Apple has come a long way from its early follies, further improvements can’t come fast enough.This time around, we have the cartography effort from Nokia doing the rounds against Google. Both apps share a few traits: they’re on iOS and Android. They both have downloadable maps for offline use. They both have some pretty extensive databases on transit.But as much as those similarities count for HERE, it has some major drawbacks to it. From testing around greater ...
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Apple Maps vs. Google Maps (Video)
Nearly three years ago, Apple released its Maps app. Prior to September of 2012, Google Maps was shipped on every iPhone. But with Google beginning to amp up its own mobile platform efforts at the time, it was clear time that a break had to happen between the two tech behemoths. No competition has its players hold their hands along the way.And so came Apple Maps to much fanfare and much hilarity. Sad but true that Apple couldn’t seem to recognize bridges from mountains and oceans from roadways.Since then, it’s had time to
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Why Don’t I Have Weather Overlays In Turn-By-Turn Navigation?
I was driving from Canada to Boston several months back, about halfway back from the BlackBerry 10 unveiling in Toronto, when an unfriendly darkness crept up over the horizon ahead. Talking to my father on the phone, I mentioned that I was somewhere in eastern New York State, and he asked if I was driving into any weather; apparently he’d seen mention on TV of a storm in the region. My eyes flashed to my other phone, the BlackBerry Z10 review unit I’d just picked up, which was propped up ...