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Apple Launches New 'Maps' App in iOS 6, Includes Turn-by-Turn Navigation, Real-Time Traffic, 3D Maps
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That's cool. Wow are there any others?
I was unaware u can use the GPS satellites without a signal. I have navigon and it requires a signal. IT will do some simulation thing without a signal but it isn't using GPS.
They said Diablo 3 is Retina ready, so I'm assuming developers were warned. If not all, some.
I don't think it does. Don't you just download the maps and use the phone's GPS connection and not need a cellular connection?
Apple Disclaimer
"Some features may not be available in all countries or all areas. Flyover and turn-by-turn navigation will be available only on iPhone 4S and iPad 2 or later. Cellular data charges may apply."
http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/maps/
"Some features may not be available in all countries or all areas. Flyover and turn-by-turn navigation will be available only on iPhone 4S and iPad 2 or later. Cellular data charges may apply."
http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/maps/
???
If you download maps from the internet while you're using it, like Google Maps, you'll need a 3G signal.
If you want to know where you are, you need a GPS-signal.
Two completely different things.
Cellular connection helps to get a GPS signal quicker, but the GPS obviously works on it's own. How else would standalone navigation devices or navigation systems of airplanes work?
Oh, you were at WWDC and saw the keynote? You got to try it? Or are you just trolling?
Disappointing
Disappointing and pretty featureless if you don't have 4s and new iPad......and you live outside of USA
Disappointing and pretty featureless if you don't have 4s and new iPad......and you live outside of USA
"Some features may not be available in all countries or all areas. Flyover and turn-by-turn navigation will be available only on iPhone 4S and iPad 2 or later. Cellular data charges may apply."
http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/maps/
Flyover I can understand, but turn-by-turn? How can that not run on the iPhone 4?
Like I said earlier. I came from the first droid to my IP4 in the spring of 11. My droid had excellent Turn by Turn. This is ridiculous!!
all those "incredible" new features are just partnerships with other big companies and thats not what apple used to stand for. such a sell out
Yelp Yelp Yelp, Facebook, Twitter, did i mention Yelp? and Airlines
... SAD
You'd rather they pull a Google by freezing out established players and starting their own half-baked equivalents (Google+, etc.)?
I like Yelp. Everyone is on Facebook. Why not support these existing services?
The fact that it uses a vector based engine sounds interesting. I wonder if that means that instead of using raster tiles they now send the raw data to the phone, which then draws the map perfectly for the scale being shown, rather than stretching or squeezing a raster tile to fit.
This sounds a much better approach that should mean crisp maps at whatever scale rather than clarity being dependent upon how close the screen scale is to the tile scale.
It also offers the possibility of doing all sorts of clever things. For example with text positioning you could ensure that text is never partially off-screen, or move it to avoid being obscured by an annotation.
It might take some getting used to for users if some text moves as they pan, but it could be very handy. There are probably a lot of things like this that become possible with a vector based approach.
So even if it doesn't seem brilliant at first the fact that it has been completely rewritten should provide the flexibility to allow for some pretty clever things in the future. Hopefully.
This sounds a much better approach that should mean crisp maps at whatever scale rather than clarity being dependent upon how close the screen scale is to the tile scale.
It also offers the possibility of doing all sorts of clever things. For example with text positioning you could ensure that text is never partially off-screen, or move it to avoid being obscured by an annotation.
It might take some getting used to for users if some text moves as they pan, but it could be very handy. There are probably a lot of things like this that become possible with a vector based approach.
So even if it doesn't seem brilliant at first the fact that it has been completely rewritten should provide the flexibility to allow for some pretty clever things in the future. Hopefully.
There are plenty of turn-by-turn apps you can download (some for free) to hold you over until it's time for you to upgrade your phone. It's not that big a deal. I mean, I know it sucks, but it's not life-altering.
Its not really about the navi. I use navigon but I think its ridiculous how they justify having to but a new phone. These "features" have been on other phones for years. Hell 5 years ago I had a LG Dare (dont laugh) and it had turn by turn. See what I mean?
id rather have them work on usability instead of adding random apps, yep ...
its 2012 and you still cannot turn off wifi/bluetooth from the homescreen or notification center for example.
the notification center on the iPad literally SCREAMS improvements as there isnt even weather to show so it looks very "un-apple".
and siri is still a "toy" to show off, they need to add more usability related commands
and here i thought iOS6 would stop me from jailbreaking ...