By making
their native Maps app...
Now all of your mapping and navigation needs are built into
the native Maps app.
It's just as well that Google Maps comes pre-loaded, given the monstrousness of BlackBerry's own
native maps app, which is clunky, confusing, slow and generally makes life difficult for the user.
The only downside to the smartphone is that it takes a little time to get used to the new OS, it doesn't offer a wide variety of apps and
its native maps app isn't on par with Google Maps.
He knows customers will be downloading other map apps and figuring out hacks to avoid using
the native Maps app so he's helping them out.
Not exact matches
Optimized for visitors and
natives alike, the
app includes an events calendar, photos, videos and local listings for hotels, ranches, golf courses and eateries, complete with GPS - enabled
maps and directions.
The tech blogosphere (CNET included) went into a mild panic today over a report in the Guardian saying that a
native Google
Maps app for iOS would «struggle for Apple approval»
Compatible
native apps are Google
Maps, Google Now, messaging, phone calling, and Google Play Music.
Much faster than just loading up
Maps in the web - browser, this native app features everything from offline maps to info about incoming buses and tra
Maps in the web - browser, this
native app features everything from offline
maps to info about incoming buses and tra
maps to info about incoming buses and trains.
He also said the
native Google
apps - including Gmail, Google
Maps, and Google Calendar
apps - «are WAY better than the ones on iPad,» which is a good segue to one of the things Scoble dislike about the Xoom: the paucity of
apps written for Honeycomb.
The acquisition of UpNext could signal Amazon's intentions to load its next Kindle Fire device with
native mapping navigation
apps.
Map for HereMap is a
native BlackBerry 10 browser
app for HERE which allows you to access various
maps and obtain turn - by - turn voice guidance directions.
At first glance, the
native apps for both operating systems are comparable, providing email, contacts, calendar,
maps and navigation, browser, music player, YouTube player, and SMS messaging.
The
native Google
Maps app on board the BlackBerry Curve 3G is not the worst we've seen — the Sony Ericsson Vivaz's poor efforts could well take that prize.
I was assuming that things would get confusing for consumers because of the difference in controls between
native PlayBook
apps and Android
apps, but according to these fellows, the gestures (menu and home button) are
mapped identically between the two types of applications.
iPad comes with those
apps you get on iOS, including iPod, iTunes, Safari browser, FaceTime, while Xoom focuses around those
native Google
apps, Gmail, GTalk,
Maps, Youtube, GEarth.
One caveat to this: third - party workout
apps usually rely on the phone's GPS to create
maps of your outdoor workout, something that their
native watch components can not do.
In the gallery
app, OnePlus is adding «Places» tab for viewing photos on a
map, while the
native calculator
app will get a history feature in the new update.
«iOS 10 is our biggest release ever, with delightful new ways to express yourself in Messages, a
native app for Home automation, and beautifully redesigned
apps for Music,
Maps, and News that are more intuitive and more powerful, making everything you love about your iPhone and iPad even better,» said Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering on the news of the release.
Google has split many
apps out of the core OS, so there's already a refreshed Google Play, Gmail,
Maps and more that use the material design that's
native to Lollipop.
Google, in addition to its new operating system, is updating its
native apps like Play Store, Gmail, Chrome, Drive, Calendar and
Maps with the same Material Design language to give users a similar experience on all its key products and services designed for Android.