LeVeL
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What do you have on your phone to use while driving?
I have Pandora for music, though honestly I never use it while in the car, as it eats data. I also have Daily Roads Voyager, which turns your phone into a dashcam. I haven't used it since I got a dedicated dashcam.
And now the big one: navigation. I tried Waze probably nine years ago and didn't like it. I've been using Google Maps ever since. Well, today I decided to give Waze another try and I honestly don't see the appeal. Morgan Freeman's voice is lovely but it doesn't give you street names - only one voice setting does actually. The police notifications were all false for me today - the app warned me four times and there wasn't a cop anywhere in sight. The pothole warnings are useless - what good is knowing that somewhere over the next half a mile on this three-lane highway there is a pothole?? Equally useless is the "car in the breakdown lane" warning - what am I supposed to do with that information? I also don't know why you can display other Waze users - I honestly don't care that andrewsballs617 is driving somewhere on the same road as me. I also generally don't like the interface all that much - I find that Google Maps uses better color coding and the maps are easier to read. I do, however, really like the simplicity of using favorites for addresses. I'm switching back to GMaps for sure though.
I have Pandora for music, though honestly I never use it while in the car, as it eats data. I also have Daily Roads Voyager, which turns your phone into a dashcam. I haven't used it since I got a dedicated dashcam.
And now the big one: navigation. I tried Waze probably nine years ago and didn't like it. I've been using Google Maps ever since. Well, today I decided to give Waze another try and I honestly don't see the appeal. Morgan Freeman's voice is lovely but it doesn't give you street names - only one voice setting does actually. The police notifications were all false for me today - the app warned me four times and there wasn't a cop anywhere in sight. The pothole warnings are useless - what good is knowing that somewhere over the next half a mile on this three-lane highway there is a pothole?? Equally useless is the "car in the breakdown lane" warning - what am I supposed to do with that information? I also don't know why you can display other Waze users - I honestly don't care that andrewsballs617 is driving somewhere on the same road as me. I also generally don't like the interface all that much - I find that Google Maps uses better color coding and the maps are easier to read. I do, however, really like the simplicity of using favorites for addresses. I'm switching back to GMaps for sure though.