I noticed that the latest update to MapQuest 4 Mobile for iPhone added voice navigation – and I thought I’d give that a spin today when I picked my daughter from school. Unfortunately, using the app was so painful, and it honestly just sucked so much, that I never even got ‘on the road’ with it.
Here’s a quick list of things that drove me away from the app altogether rather than the app helping me to drive somewhere:
— Getting my current location wrong by several miles (while the Maps app gets it spot on) – check.
— No way to just force-feed it my correct current location – check
— Goofy and wrong search results for my daughter’s school – check
— Telling me ‘No address found’ while it showed me an address I wanted to use as the start point for directions (as shown in the screenshot at the top of this post) – check
— Making it near impossible to get valid directions for a place just a few miles away – check
For the first few minutes of using the app the thought that it sucked compared to the Maps app crossed my mind several times. After hitting on all the stupid issues mentioned above, I decided the app just sucks – even without any points of comparison.
So needless to say, voice navigation testing was aborted – although I would’ve loved for there have been a way to tell the app where to go. It would’ve been very short, easy directions.
Your mileage with the app may vary of course – but my mileage counter with it will be sticking at zero.
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