[u]New version for the iPhone[/u]
We just released an upgrade for the iPhone version, and here’s the list of what’s new:
New share my drive and share location interface
- Pick up from navigate screen
- Gas search in main menu
- Recent places shown in main navigate screen
- Preloads route when connected to WiFi
- New call and “beep” features for Facebook friends
- New alerts show friends online, who’s connected, and new friend driving to your destination
- Bugs, stability and design fixes
[u]Gas-Stations[/u]
The option to update gas-prices in real-time has been activated in Norway & Panama.
The communities in these 2 countries managed to collect all the necessary gas-stations and add them to the map within a record-time of 2 WEEKS.
They’re joining UK, Spain, Israel, Latvia, Brazil, The USA, Italy, Slovakia, Finland, Lithuania, Hungary, New Zealand, Sweden, Germany, Cyprus, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Russia, Estonia and the Czech Republic for a total of 23 countries so far!
Community & Social
Facebook is exploding with Waze-related groups!
In the past 2 weeks, we were joined by Waze Singapore! We’re happy to welcome you to the community.
Congratulations are in-order, to jemay & OyyoDams for getting to over 300,000 map edits and join the 300K club.
We would also like to congratulate richardjeeves for getting into the 200K club – WELL DONE.
Translations
So far, Waze has been fully translated into 24 languages, and we’re in the process of adding even more.
If you wish to help, let us know.
[u]Waze on the News[/u]
We’re finalists for “The Crunchies” - so vote for us
TV spot:ESPN
Digiday
3 appearences in Forbes: 1,2,3
ReadWriteWeb
Tech Crunch
Billboard Magazine
Accident prevention in GigaOm
The New York Times
PC Magazine
We’re also in this month’s edition of Popular Science!
See you in 2 weeks!