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Always find maps.nokia.com better on my iPhone. Best part is it works even in places others fail. e.g. UAE.
Strangely, Microsoft hasn't put the Bing app in the Canadian app store. The app's been out for ages now, and is still US only (as far as I know?). I can't for the life of me figure out a good reason for this. Bing.com has local search results for Canada, so it's not that. Not that it's putting me out. I can search bing from Safari. Just a strange move on their part. It's like the intern who's job it was to ready the…
As an European Windows Phone user i'm doubting that they are aware that there's a world outside USA. A lot of features are disabled for no good reason, and the rest of them has no data for Denmark. For example when you play music on your phone you can set it to show pictures of the artist on the lock screen. On my phone the background just turns red. Also Local scout is disabled, though there aren't any data for it i…
"Transit directions aren't available for these locations" (Nottingham, UK).
Nearest pub not on the map (admittedly it's not there on either Google Maps or Apple Maps, but I guess it's only been open for about three years), and the nearest one that is listed has actually been demolished for about 3 years (it's gone on both Google and Apple maps).
No traffic shown on the driving view, at least around here.
Also no street view, but at least it's got aerial views of the town that aren't just clouds.
So unless I'm after an aerial shot of an area and maps.google.com isn't working, it's a "no thanks" from me.
Bing Maps have been rapidly improving over the past year and no one seems to have picked-up on it. via their deal with Nokia, Microsoft is slowly updating the backend data, incorporating Navteq's over 20+ years of mapping tech. its not quite up to parity with Nokia Maps (or Google) internationally yet, but it's come a long way and (i'm guessing) easily beats-out Apple's quickly-built homegrown implementation. for tho…
My major problem with Bing is that it defaults the interface language based on your location. This is stupid. If I'm travelling in China, then having the entire interface in Chinese is completely useless. Bing like many other major sites, make the poor assumption that the user's location == preferred language. From a usability perspective, the interface language should primarily be based on the browser user agent Acc…
This is not a suitable replacement for Google maps, I'll be deleting it.
Maybe I'm being stupid but I cannot find any maps on the Bing app. I open the app up and I get presented with a search bar and a picture of some mountains, touching the screen anywhere doesn't bring up any options for different types of searches (i.e. I wanted a map-specific one). Searching for my town "Brno" just brings up regular search results with no option to view a map. Searching for "London" brings up more, so…
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As an European Windows Phone user i'm doubting that they are aware that there's a world outside USA. A lot of features are disabled for no good reason, and the rest of them has no data for Denmark. For example when you play music on your phone you can set it to show pictures of the artist on the lock screen. On my phone the background just turns red. Also Local scout is disabled, though there aren't any data for it i…
I gave up on Windows Phone because there was still no Skype app 6 months after I bought the phone, even though Microsoft acquired them. iPhone 4S Just Works...
Bing Maps have been rapidly improving over the past year and no one seems to have picked-up on it. via their deal with Nokia, Microsoft is slowly updating the backend data, incorporating Navteq's over 20+ years of mapping tech. its not quite up to parity with Nokia Maps (or Google) internationally yet, but it's come a long way and (i'm guessing) easily beats-out Apple's quickly-built homegrown implementation. for tho…
I wonder if this tendency to characterise people as 'haters' was brought about by the increasing divisiveness of American politics. It is a little disturbing that any kind of opposition or criticism toward a product can be summed up as 'hating on it'. Rather than be a hater, why not be an adversary, an opponent, a critic, a skeptic, a detractor, a gadfly, an enemy, or an antagonist? Instead of 'hating' why not dislik…
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I gave up on Windows Phone because there was still no Skype app 6 months after I bought the phone, even though Microsoft acquired them. iPhone 4S Just Works...
I think skype was released a month or so after they acquired skype. Besides the skype integration that they show in the next version is way better than on any other phones/OS