Video: How Nokia Drive can make your commute even easier
This is Nokia’s promo for the new update for Nokia Drive that brings some handy features to your commute.
With the new Nokia Drive, it can learn your journeys and anticipate your driving habits. Quite nicely they show the tile indicating how long that commute would take. When ready, just tap the tile. I like the inclusion of the morning chores (breakfast, shower).
Now you can see Nokia Drive in action, with the actual driver in an actual car on an actual road (it might sound silly but this is much better than simply displaying the phone screen).
Can you imagine what Nokia Drive would be like in WP8 when full voice control is available to developers? You could talk to Nokia Drive and tell it to reroute or find another location before the final destination all without taking your hands off the wheel (or getting someone else) to touch the phone.
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Overall, good production on the video for a web promo. I’d like something like this (with a little bit more polish, more concise) to be a TV advert.
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They really ought to combine Nokia maps and Nokia drive.
Its really silly that drive have offline but maps don’t.
maps changes regurlarly which makes no sense to have it offline.. Drive maps hardly changes
o.0 they are one and the same on symbian.
AND, the best part of maps, where you get to see your favourites (locations you saved) are only available if you are online.
That’s bs. They both use the same version of navteq data
AFAIK both maps and drive work online (atleast on my N9)
Nope, not correct, drive can work off-line…
Just need to know what you’re doing, post a talk.maemo.org to get some tips.
I don’t need tips, I’m telling you it’s working offline.
I don’t have wifi in my car and internet connection is disabled.
Maps and Drive on N9 BOTH work offline.
“I’m telling you it’s working offline.”
Well, you clearly didn’t initially, check your OP.
Apologies for that. Typo.
Anyways they work offline.
Hi guys, this is Pino from Nokia. There is some misunderstanding here and I would like to clarify.
1. Although on Symbian and Nokia N9 both Nokia Maps and Nokia Drive can work offline, this does not happen on Nokia Lumia just yet, where only Nokia Drive can work offline. The reason is the tight time of development we had to work with on Windows Phone. So we prioritized the offline experience in Nokia Drive over Nokia Maps. But soon this will be fixed.
2. Nokia Drive and Nokia Maps are NOT going to be merged in one monolithic app. They are separate apps also on Symbian (latest versions) and on Nokia N9, so nothing new here. Why? Using our apps should be as easy as possible. You shouldn’t think in terms of menus and features and options. You want to drive home? Voilà, one tap on the tile and Nokia Drive starts to guide you there. However, if you want more “cooperation” between apps, like it’s happening on Symbian or Nokia N9, then YES, we are working on it.
Cool, can’t wait to try the My Commute feature here.
Looks bitchen!. Will otherwise come to symbian?
Will this (or elements) also come to Harmattan eventually? TY.
If i would guess i would guess no.
But it will come to any WP8 phone even Samsung.
All this (& more) is already there (albeit unofficially).
S^3 still edges out even Harmattan though.
What?!? Both Drive AND Maps work offline. On my Symbian devices they have been. They’re internally the same thing actually. Maps has it all. Drive, Walk, Do nothing. Everything.
You can use Drive completely offline on the Lumia phones. Maps, on the other hand, can work offline (provided you download the map on Drive) but searching for places require an internet/data connection.
Useless feature.
If I commute somewhere everyday, I already know all the potholes on the road, the traffic, everything.
Nokia came up with a feature… and the feature is that YOU have to teach GPS where to go. LOL.
Predictable
Yeah, unlike all other GPS applications which read your mind and know where you want to go, even before you know it yourself.
Some times your commute changes. In the Los Angeles area for example, people commute 20 to 60 miles one way then have to drive back. Our rapid transit is crap. So c ommuters deal with a lot of collisions, gridlock, construction, etc. Getting all that square during your morning shit, shower, shave could mean the difference of being 15 minutes early, or an hour late.
A very handy app.
I am very very disappointed with this update. I thought my Nokia maps favourites will finally come to drive, but no. It does have a favourites, but it is different than the favourites in maps and doesn’t sync to Nokia. So now, I have three independent sets of favourites. Bing maps, Nokia maps and Nokia drive. Pathetic.
yup. agreed.
Yes guys, we know about this and we are working on it. We just want to make sure the experience is right. For instance you might have some favorites you drive to, others you walk to. Plus, everything should work offline. Give us a bit more of time and we will come up with a great solution.
Just managed to download the latest Nokia Drive and I’m on the Malaysian Marketplace. Really like the ability to save locations (been waiting for this for a while). Too bad ‘My Commute’ isn’t available in my region yet, but not a big deal for me as I have little use for that feature for now.
hear hear!, too bad it does not sync with nokia maps data.
Not to mention syncing with Bing Maps/Local Scout and Nokia City Lens for those who prefer to use those.
Anyway, in regards to syncing with Nokia Maps data, an employee from Nokia, who goes by the username of haikus, responded at WP Central that they are working on it (Link: http://www.wpcentral.com/nokia-announces-drive-30-going-live-soon-windows-phone).
can i use nokia drive on my nokia N900 phone.
what do you think retard?