Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Bernardi Honda Natick: Car App of the Week: Waze, FREE GPS Application

Life has been made simpler with the emergence of smartphones.  Need to find a great place to eat? There’s an app for that.  Want to set up a reminder to pick milk after work?  There’s an app for that.  Want to begin your plan for world domination by taking over your city with one swift button?  There’s NO app for that, yet…but who knows what's in store for the future!


The iPhone app store has a plethora of GPS apps that range from $.99 to $100, all allowing for a step-by-step guide to get from point A to B.  Our app of the week, Waze, a new navigation system that provides step-by-step directions on a 3-D map, combining crowd-sourced info as well as accurate GPS, is the perfect solution. Also, the app is totally free!  According to 148Apps: “Waze is a free, social, mobile crowd-source navigation and real-time traffic application for iPhone that gives its users a "real-time," live description of the road/driving conditions around them. It's a free, useful, fun application everyone should download and experience!”


Waze features:


  • Constantly-updated road map

  • Real-time traffic updates

  • Automatic rerouting

  • Live reports from users on the road

  • Turn-by turn directions

  • Road tweets â€" Twitter integration

  • Foursquare integration

  • Automatically learned frequent routes

  • Picture sharing from the road

  • User contribution scoreboard


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