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Re:Facebook in talks to buy Waze for $1B by BadassFractal on Thursday May 09, 2013 @05:52AM (#5679576)
How does Waze compare to the vanilla Android Navigation app as far as avoiding traffic is concerned?
Re:Facebook in talks to buy Waze for $1B by raleec on Thursday May 09, 2013 @07:57AM (#5679887)
I greatly prefer Waze. The biggest annoyance for me was that Android doesn't have a way to default to "avoid tolls", so every time I started up, I had to dig into the settings or risk a momentary distraction putting me on a toll road.

Waze has more of an interactive experience (with the ability to report hazards and backups, and some random reward system), but it is more of a focused app than Google Nav.

But as with anything YMMV (Sorry, obligatory pun)

Re:Facebook in talks to buy Waze for $1B by ysapir on Thursday May 09, 2013 @06:10AM (#5679622)
In my view, Android does slightly better routing and search. Waze has a much better UI/UX experience.

EDIT: And Waze does not do walking/public transportation directions.