So I've been using Here Drive for a long long time now. But im about to try Waze for a while. Part of this is that recently Here Drive keeps freezing on me. Anyway, what do you use? What's ur preference?
I prefer to use
Waze, especially because in my country Here Drive (or other map services) does not provide me with real-time traffic information... at least not yet. I can even find useful information reported by the crowd, such as accidents, closed roads, constructions areas, etc... which Waze will "consider" when choosing your best route. It also detects whether I'm most likely about to go home or to work, depending on the time of day and my routing history.
The only downside I see in using Waze is that it is really battery intensive... but this should not be a problem if you keep your phone plugged into some form of charger or battery pack while navigating or driving.
If you're using a phone with 512MB of RAM, you might find Waze a bit sluggish.
On a side note: For other map queries, such as if I want to find out the name of a certain street, or if I want to use augmented reality in viewing nearby places of interest, I use
Here Maps (or one of the Here Apps with this function) since Waze is primarily a driving app, not an all-around map app.