About Your Waze - GPS, Maps, Traffic Alerts Tips
This is an app Tricks Waze (/weɪz/), (formerly FreeMap Israel) is a GPS navigation software that works on smartphones and tablets with GPS support and provides turn-by-turn navigation information and user-submitted travel times and route details, while downloading location-dependent information over a mobile telephone network. Waze describes its app as a community-driven GPS navigation app, which is free to download and use. The app was first developed and popularized by Waze Mobile, an Israeli company founded by Ehud Shabtai, Amir Shinar and Uri Levine, funded by two Israeli venture capital firms, Magma and Vertex, and an early-stage American venture capital firm Bluerun Ventures. Waze Mobile was acquired in 2013 by Google.
Waze won the Best Overall App award at the 2013 Mobile World Congress, beating Dropbox, Flipboard and others.[1]
Waze supports Android and iPhone, while Symbian, BlackBerry 10 (except BlackBerry Q10), Windows Phone 8[3] and Windows Mobile from version 5 were deprecated. In July 2013 Waze said they planned to support both iPhone and Android, and would consider supporting new platforms. As older platforms (Symbian, WM, BlackBerry) do not support either a full native UI or other application programming interfaces they rely on, they claimed they could not support them any more, although existing versions would continue to work.
Currently only 13 countries have a full base map, the others are incompletely mapped. As of 2013 Waze has a complete base map for the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Israel (claimed to be the best map for that country), South Africa, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile and Panama, but the company has plans to complete maps for other countries in Europe and elsewhere.
Avoid traffic jams, police traps, and accidents with Waze, the #1 real-time navigation app. Get the fastest routes to your favorite locations and new destinations, all for free.
Waze is a community of 85 million drivers. Here’s why:
◦ Automatically reroute around traffic as conditions change on the road
◦ Get police & speedcam alerts while you drive
◦ Hear road directions by celebrity voices or the average Joe
◦ Record your own custom voice directions to guide you on the road
◦ Know how long your drive will take before you start driving
◦ Find gas stations and the cheapest gas prices on your drive
◦ Earn points and gain status as you contribute with road info
◦ Low data usage from your phone
◦ Waze works anywhere in the world
For drivers who really don’t like to waste time or money:
◦ Get notified when it’s time to leave for your destination by setting your drive in advance
◦ Let Waze tell you when it’s time to leave for your events by syncing your calendar with Waze
◦ Save time looking for parking with Waze parking suggestions by your destination
◦ Choose to be routed on toll roads or to avoid them
◦ Get a sound alert if you exceed the speed limit with the speedometer
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