Four million downloads after launching its HERE mapping app for Android devices back in October, Nokia is today bringing HERE to iOS devices. I’ve been playing with the app for a while leading up to launch, and it’s a true Google Maps and Apple Maps competitor…
One of the highlight features of the HERE app for iOS is saved maps, which allows you to essentially put the entire experience directly on your device for times when you don’t have a data connection. The offline mode will even let you search, get directions, and find your own location. Like similar solutions from other mapping apps, you’ll be able to download cities and countries a la carte for offline mode out of the 150 or so maps available offline.
Other features you’ll find in the HERE app: directions for walking, public transit for 950 cities, and turn-by-turn navigation for vehicles with voice guidance/spoken street names. A lot of real-time data is pulled into the app, and a unique Collections feature keeps track of saved points of interest.
When you have a data connection, HERE’s “hybrid engine” combines saved maps with online information — such as live traffic (in 40+ countries), real-time public transit (25 cities), and photos and reviews for the places shown on the map… Collections let you save places ahead of time. You can create and view Collections on any HERE app — iOS, Android, Windows, etc. — or on the web at here.com.
The HERE app for iPhone arrives today on the App Store. More screenshots below:
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Don’t see the app in iOS App store. Is this already on or still coming soon?
Finally got it. At least in USA as far as I know.
In case you can’t find it via search in the App store, here’s the link.
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id955837609?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D8
Thanks for sharing!
App Store и iTunes Store – does not work)
Hasn’t arrived in the Danish app-store yet…
ahh…mabe because of the app store being down at the moment…
Not yet in the UK app store either.
Not in Belgium yet either.
Not in Polish either.
It may just be me, but I can’t find it in the App Store just yet. Will keep trying. There are two other HERE mapping apps in there, though. Hm… Oh well; will circle back later.
looks like a great app .. too bad App Store doesn’t work right now …
doesn’t work in USA either… where does it work then?
App Store Says this APP not available in US
The article says it will arrive later today. Check back later.
And of course the iTunes store is inaccessible along with all other Apple stores.
I’ve had this app on my iOS Device for a loooong time. Was it pulled and now getting a re-release?
Originally released a few years ago but it was pulled I believe in 2013 because they didn’t want to put in the time to develop it for iOS7 after the whole Microsoft ordeal. With that squared away, they started work on it again, released on Android last fall and back on iOS today (if they fix the App Store)
It’s now available in the (US) AppStore. Not sure about other countries.
I see no obvious or intuitive way to select or even display public transit routes by arrival time. Such a lack, if true, incomprehensibly renders the app useless for public transit planning.
Hi Michael, when you plan a route, you have the option to see all transit options by tapping on ‘More transit routes’. In the next screen, you have the possibility to see at-a-glance which one best fits your needs. You can also change the options to see how to get to destination at a specific time. I posted some screenshots on Twitter: https://twitter.com/haikus/status/576049198291894272
Hi Michael, when you plan a route, you have the option to see all transit options by tapping on ‘More transit routes’. In the next screen, you have the possibility to see at-a-glance which one best fits your needs. You can also change the options to see how to get to destination at a specific time. I posted some screenshots on my Twitter account: feel free to check it out.
Thanks, Pino! And shame on me for going off half-cocked! I stumbled across the solution this morning, and was puzzled to find it’s no more or less intuitive than Google’s mechanism.
One difference is that the display expands rather than adapting to the iPad in landscape mode, which makes the first option look like the only one. This may also be the reason I saw (this morning) a suggestion to take an hourly bus at 7 a.m. to arrive 20 minutes away by noon. In the last example, wouldn’t reverse chronological listing backward from the closest trip be more logical?
I like the look of the maps, and I’ll reserve other feedback for the feedback channel. The ability to save searches and maps for offline, if it works the way I expect it to, could make this my go-to map app.