Nokia Drive (3.0) & Nokia Transport (2.0) Upcoming Features:

Nokia Drives last update brought offline navigation to all; which is great- so what’s to come in 3.0?

• the application “learns” based on the style of driving
• Time travel and the density of traffic movements are tracked in real time, displaying information on the “live tile”
• Automatic determination of time of day, with the change of colour scheme cards
• Manual adjustment of routes
• Off-line favourite lists with the possibility of fixing tiles on the desktop.

And for the newly released Nokia Transport:

• Search for public transport using the user’s location.
• Displaying nearby transportation: buses, trains, trams, subways, taxis, marked stops
• Show the route with transfers
• Support Schedule in 87 countries around the world
• Support for fast access to Favorites
• Advanced Search
• Saving query history
• Change the query without a new route
• Faster search and installation of the route
• Optimized application performance

It seems like a pretty nice changelog to come (soon hopefully) but one feature I’d love to see (and is frankly pretty important) is the ability to navigate to a Favorite through Nokia drive (as of now favorites don’t sync between drive & maps)- up till now the best Favorites/search integration I could find is still on Symbian, (at least the N9 can sync with the Symbian favorites- WP doesn’t recognize any of your favorites or routes stored online).

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Category: Applications, Nokia, Symbian, Windows Phone