Has anyone figured out the Navigation app?

[Ward510]

Download either Sygic or CoPilot. They use stored data. Neither require a data connection. Once it's installed, you're done.

I notice that both these apps require permission to access a lot of content on the N7. I mean, why should they need access to phone calls or social info? Should I be worried about this?

 

[philba]

<goes on and on>

It depends on what you want. Frankly, most of your objections sound hypercritical. The N7 and Android certainly can be improved but expecting G to provide perfection (your definition of it) seems incredibly unrealistic. You were the one that called their SW a scam and I still see no proof of that. For the lack of certain features to be a scam, you have to show intent. I think G is working as fast as they can to add more features. I am certain they they don't have a strategy of shipping crappy OS SW to get you to buy apps from their store. That just doesn't pass the sanity test.

 

[MikeLip]

It depends on what you want. Frankly, most of your objections sound hypercritical. The N7 and Android certainly can be improved but expecting G to provide perfection (your definition of it) seems incredibly unrealistic. You were the one that called their SW a scam and I still see no proof of that. For the lack of certain features to be a scam, you have to show intent. I think G is working as fast as they can to add more features. I am certain they they don't have a strategy of shipping crappy OS SW to get you to buy apps from their store. That just doesn't pass the sanity test.

Especially since there are perfectly acceptable FREE nav apps available in the store. Google makes, let me see (naught, naught, carry the naught....) nothing on them. Thank you Jethro Bodine for that math lesson I have found that the Google Nav app is in general pretty decent. They do not offer the flexibility of an app like Magellan for iOS, or certainly not Navigon. But hey, it's free. If you don't like free, there is a simple solution. Don't use it. I find their map display far better than anyone elses and it's usually my first choice.

 

[tflash]

Especially since there are perfectly acceptable FREE nav apps available in the store. Google makes, let me see (naught, naught, carry the naught....) nothing on them. Thank you Jethro Bodine for that math lesson I have found that the Google Nav app is in general pretty decent. They do not offer the flexibility of an app like Magellan for iOS, or certainly not Navigon. But hey, it's free. If you don't like free, there is a simple solution. Don't use it. I find their map display far better than anyone elses and it's usually my first choice.

Micro transaction games are a major PITA, but games are really only free one of two ways: advertisements or micro-transactions. No one is going to work and having their boss say "hey Bob, I want you to spend the next month programming a game that has no avenue for making a profit, so we can give it away for free!"

Of course Google has a strategy to get you to visit the play store. Of course Google makes $ on 'Free' apps. Maybe they are 'loss leaders' to get you to by movies and such? Google spends money to provide the play store so it makes sense that they make money on them somehow. Facebook makes money somehow, and they are 'free'.

I didn't start this thread about the lack of offline nav. I did say Google was smart about it and Apple was dumb. A smart scam will show no 'proof' of intent. See how well they fooled people? Anyone can feel free to respond to this to say they got in the last word, but I made my point so I'm done here.

 

[wyseguy77]

Wow, and I've never read so many pages of comments saying the same thing but differently. I love this!


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[mknollman123]

Copilot live USA - the best GPS app - on sale often for 5 bucks

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[dralezero]

on Google Play page (from my computer) right now it shows a Nexus 7 with navigation on the screen "Your travel anywhere companion! A no-compromise Android tablet" Click it and shows Wifi only version with navigation promoted on the N7 screen. Probably just oversight, but makes it seem like we should expect the navigation to be useful. Are they improving offline navigation cache?

 

[James Tennier]

As of this weekend, 7-21,13 I'd just "updated" 80 app package.
Monday night= no Navigation. Better part of the evening spent trying to fix Goggles fix to app that was not broken.YOU ARE GOOGLE. ACT LIKE IT, NOT APPLE!
Tuesday evening after uninstalling MAPS and a few other "apps that never worked" I installed MAPS VERSION 6.1.1 and seem to have my navigation program, with traffic and layers and directions and routes, and we'll know tomorrow as it's another day. We'll see.