Rakesh Rocky2
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Ok carry on... Or user this http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=b128c4c2-46d3-4343-aa68-8f1ea3e88434
Because GMaps are found on more devices because of simple numbers doesn't make it the better app. If Here Maps is found to be better for usage depends on where it's used then that's that case closed. Just as there are IOS,ANDROID AND WP die-hard users they all have their preferences. So in the end NO particular user base can say that one app is better than the other especially when the person you're talking to have used both and found one to be to their liking more than the other.
Yup.. Iphone 6 is indeed much better than lumia 520.
Regarding the maps, I used google maps for 5 years and it was superb. The only thing better for Here is the offline capability. Im in Australia ��
Since they're using the ? sign it's an indication they're in the UK, which means unless they own a L730/5 L830, L930 or running DP they don't have Cortana.
So though it's a great feature there are many who don't know about 'Cortana's' features because they don't have it.
I recognized that the OP is from the UK, but I also know that lots of folks are running the Developer Preview and using Cortana. With just a few minutes of research he could be one of them. I thought my link might be the helpful hint to start him on his quest.
Yup.. Iphone 6 is indeed much better than lumia 520.
Regarding the maps, I used google maps for 5 years and it was superb. The only thing better for Here is the offline capability. Im in Australia
For eg, you can simply type a shop in google maps and it will navigate you there.. While in Here, you might not find the shop in the map, then you google it (irony), then get the address and put it in Here.
Just my 2 cents
yet Android also has Here Maps nowI found it better and you can continue your work!
1. Here map/drive are way better than Google maps!
2. Have you ever heard of Cortana and Quiet Hours?
I sometimes feel folks just want to pass their time by ranting WP for no reasons
While I think the OPs position is rather silly, I think the actual award for "what could you possibly be thinking" would go to anyone who would say Here Drive is better than any mapping product. In my experience, it gives the iPhone maps app a run for its money as the most embarrassing. It doesn't matter where I go, most directions will eventually devolve into some version of they are so bad they are funny. Most recent was calling it up while heading to the late FedEx depot near the El Paso Airport. Following Here Drive directions literally adds 25 minutes onto the drive because the system has not been updated to recognize the direct road that goes to the location (been there for quite awhile).
Most laughable though were those to get to a scenic overlook in the Franklin Mountain in El Paso. Some day I will record the route and post. To make a long story short, the Here Drive directions instruct you to take the Cotton Rd exit off I-10, proceed straight for a half mile and then turn right. The off ramp is not a half mile long (barely 250 yards) and then ends at an intersection where you can only turn left. If you were to try turning right, you would hit (in order): a substantial fence, the Southern Pacific Railroad, another substantial fence, the Rio Grande, and the Mexican border.
I was hoping that the Here Drive fiasco of bad directions was limited to the Phoenix metro area, but the directions seem equally bad wherever I go in the west. Whether it be my phone telling me to make a U turn for literally a third of the drive between Scottsdale and Payson, AZ because it insisted the fastest way to get from Phoenix to Alamosa CO was the longest via I-17 and Flagstaff (by any measure longest and slowest); or directing me onto a road in El Paso that goes to a Fort Bliss gate (was not going to Fort Bliss); or failing to understand that the only thing to the right off a ramp is Mexico; it is a just a bad joke. In my experience its only value is for amusement.
But that requires me to become American does it not?
There is a standalone quiet hours app that does not require Cortana. I have had the quiet hours app installed long before Cortana.
Here Maps better than Google Maps? Please don't me make me laugh when I'm at work.
I am actually not quite sure about vibrate.Is that the same app that leaves vibration on?
Just checked the standalone version and when it opens now it says not compatible with WP8.1. So I take back my earlier comment.Is that the same app that leaves vibration on?