I'm really not wild about 7.0.2. While I guess it is a bit cleaner and a bit more "hip", there are some features that took significant steps backwards.
I still have my Navigation icon, but it launches to the same thing that maps does. Before, if you had no navigation in progress, you would go straight to a clean screen to choose your destination - easy peasey. Now, not so much.
Where is the official place to log constructive criticism? Is there a Google Group or G+ spot?
My current list of issues - in order of annoyance:
1) Returning to the application does not continue the navigation in progress. Instead, it goes back to asking you for a destination and then which path. Really? Switching to another application and back makes you start over?
2) The destination picking mechanism has taken several steps backward. I much prefer the handful of buttons at the top that had "Home", "Type", "Contact". Below that was Googles amazing _prescient_ list of recent destinations. That list was so good it was kinda scary at first. It would rank recent destinations by recency, as well as by day of week and time of day. Every Monday morning (and only then), I drive to a particular station. Every Monday morning, that destination was at the top position - all other times, it would be off the list or much lower. Now - that all seems to be gone.
3) No obvious way to get to my favorite locations from the choose destination screen. Just the "dumb" list of recent locations.
4) The "choose path" screen went from useful to useless. It used to be a "preview" view with up to 3 highlighted routes on the map. it had 3 buttons at the top to allow you to select which path. That path was then highlighted on the map - so you could see what you selected - and look at traffic. Now the are just three text descriptions - and the descriptions are surprisingly bad (given Google usually gets stuff like this right).
Many more...
20) No support for the menu button. Really? They couldn't make it duplicate the menu icon functionality? Given that even Google can't decide where to put the menu icon - and what it should look like (now it is in the lower left) please support phones that have a menu button - it is always in the same place and takes up no screen real estate.
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