HERE mapping has been part of the Windows Phone (now Windows 10) story for many years, but unfortunately this is a love story that has come to an end. The company has announced that all Windows development has been halted and apps will be pulled for both Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile. Those of you who are die-hard HERE fans will need to downgrade to Windows Phone 8 in order to continue mapping.
Interestingly, the older version of Microsoft's mobile platform will continue to receive critical updates and will remain present on the store, but for the rest of us on Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile, we're all out of luck.
"Although the essence of the HERE apps lives on in the Windows Maps app, we are removing the HERE branded apps from the Windows 10 store on March 29, 2016 and will limit the development of the apps for Windows Phone 8 to critical bug fixes."
So what's the reasoning behind the removal of HERE from Windows 10? Simply put, the company doesn't deem the platforms (both desktop and mobile) worthy of a whole new app. This is what's required in order to provide mapping tools to consumers without relying on workarounds. They would need to rebuild the apps (presumably as a universal listing) from scratch.
You have until March 29 to download the HERE apps, but they will cease to function come June 30. It's a real shame for the platforms with many relying on HERE tech for navigation and the like. We'll be sure to keep you all in the loop and even run you through some alternatives to keep you from getting lost when out and about.
Reader comments
The HERE collection of apps will no longer be available for Windows 10 after March 29
Pages
To me the HERE apps have been the main reason i stook to Nokia and then with windows phones the past 15 years, realy relyed on the integration betwin HERE maps and HERE Tranzit for on the fly route changes and navigation.
The nead to switch from maps to the Transport service websites for a acurate information kinda removes the ''on the fly'' component, rendering the windows phone navigation compleatly useless (to me) by inserting time i do not have when switching from/to train/subway/buss lignes.
Guess ill have to join in on that ''but unfortunately this is a love story that has come to an end.'' part.
i would love to get that start screen background!!! please someone give me the link!!
Tested again once here vs. MS Maps. MS maps is total crap. Despite they use same base map MS Maps behavies completely different. For example even if you can see street name on map if you put this same street address in search MS Maps says it can't find it. It's complete disaster compared to any navigation software out there.
If the MS Maps app gets improved to equal my experience on Here Drive+ then I can go with this. BUT.....I bought and paid for my Here Drive+ when I needed international support while travelling. This was not supported on the bundled Here Drive app on my ATIV S ( not "+" version). Do I get my money back now that the app will no longer work and is being disabled/removed? What are the legal ramifications for those that have paid for the Here Maps apps and now have them turned off not just the end of further support and development? I purposely avoided taking the recent updates which installed the disable code but yesterday checked my phone for updates and found they were installed anyways. When I opened Here Drive+ it opened the dreaded end of service notification. Can MS take away something I've purchased arbritarily? This in my opinion is a form of theft.
If that application crash fail to use Windows mobile, I want and I need the application's of Here
And this is the last straw. Good bye windows, I've tried for 3 years.
Noooo!!! Not Surfer Dude! He was my buddy! He was the best voice navigator I've ever used, and now he's leaving me!
I shall hold a funeral.
Something was fishy when I notices their web site, a month back promoting Android and ios app but not windows
Good. Now we just have to wait for whatsapp to do the same
I am using My Commute feature every day with Here Drive+. Can I do that with Windows maps?
I don't think so... Its a feature of Here Drive+ ... Can't be used on windows maps
It's funny that when you start Maps on the splash screen it says. "HERE - maps for life"... Well, unless you're on Windows.
I will stay with WP8.1 and HERE and not downgrade to WP10. Next phone will be Android.
maps for life my ass!
I hope this does not mean they pull the Android version as well. Google maps sucks for offline navigating!
its kind of sad to see this happening. I am still on 8.1 but will not hold back upgrading to windows 10 as soon as the OTA updates happen. I will miss here maps, but for traffic I was relying on the third party GMaps+ anyway. I realy liked Here transit and city lens. I don't know of worth alternatives to those, so that will be a void in my eindows experience.
Having said that i believe it will be a bigger loss for Nokia as here suit of appps are mostly used by Windows fans and without windows the future of here apps will be uncertain. They will have to fight real hard with google on Android and iOS. I feel sad. This will only increase the app gap significantly as Here apps were one of most widely used apps. So the void will be hard to fill.
But it is what it is. I am still invested in the windows ecosystem and truly believe that it is the OS to be on in future. So I will stay invested for all the good things that are here and are likely to happen in near future.
That's really weird they will actively disable the app from functioning. If the app is on your phone and the maps are downloaded then it should still just be allowed to work.
Features like here commute and apps like here transit won't work i guess the need a constant connection with server
So sad about this :(
Ikr
there's new updates to the HERE apps, i wonder if they are preparing to shut down the apps for WP (8.1). I'm not updating yet...
im not too fussed about here maps, but i am with here drive, i need a sat nav on my phone, i hope microsoft can do something there otherwise i would have to leave, not through choice but it seems to be 1 thing after another with microsoft apps at this time. I supose thats what hapens when you fdont have a flag ship for spo long, and when you do finaly have a flagship it make it plasti. That and one drive changes caused the windows base to drop 50% from what i read. Now well all be talking about missing sat nav while apple pay equivilent gets ignored and still no gestures. I hope they solve this situation but it doesnt look good. No sat nav no phone. Its that simple.
They are ceasing development because they can't monetise something that everyone is used to for using for free. Pity, i use here maps daily although it's has started to become rather unreliable.
I was so happy when HERE maps and drive came to W10 as I'd loved relying on them on WP8.1, and now this... It's a big disappointment that the original mapping suite of apps designed by Nokia for WP8 is now being dropped by HERE. It feels like a kick in the nuts to all the loyal Windows Phone advocates and it is an equal shame that Microsoft has not invested adequately to produce a mapping and drive app that equals or surpasses the HERE apps. Mapping and navigation apps are one of the initial underpinning core tools that support any mobile OS. For Microsoft to not support this area well enough belies a lack of conviction and ambition for it's W10 mobile offerings.
Pray that Islandwood is finished ASAP at 100%. Pray that HERE engineers want to port their iOS app to Windows Mobile 10.
HERE app ecosystem will still be supported on iOS, if Islandwood is as good as they say, it should take 5 minutes for HERE engineers to port the app using Microsoft's technology (iOS Bridge, Visual Studio 2016, Windows 10 Enterprise, etc).
But if that ain't happening, then its time to see that Islandwood may be a fail as Astoria was, and if that happens, let's pray, because Windows Mobile days will be numbered.
First MixRadio, now HERE Maps... What's going on?
I may be wrong but I think Microsoft wants big developers (Philips, Parrot, Lego, HERE, Snapchat,Facebook, Periscope, etc) to begin using iOS bridge to port their iOS apps to Windows Mobile so these companies only have 1 base of code (iOS base) so that they don't have to hire 2 group of developers, the group that builds Windows apps using .NET and the group that builds iOS using Cocoa, Objective C and javascript.
Just my 2 cents.
Well there ya go... I will delete Here apps from my Android and ios devices as well... And I will not be using Here maps with Civil 3D...
Posted via the Windows Central App for Android
Interesting. I prefered Navigon, but I noticed a while ago that Navigon featured here branding. And I'm still on wp8.1 so I don't know if navigon works on windows 10 mobile. Sigh.
So can I finally access my HERE "collections" from the Win 10 maps app? I have tons of places stored. I couldn't find any means of exporting them from the app or online. Makes it hard for me to switch :(.
Gutted to be losing these apps AGAIN. It's the best mapping app(s) out there by far and it's where I have all my favourites places stored something I really missed when I first got my w10 device and I will most definitely miss it again. I find the Windows map poor in comparison.
It was pretty cool when they used to announce these apps to demonstrate how good Windows Phone was and its content... Now they're leaving the platform... :(
Goodbye, Mix Radio and HERE Maps.
That's sad. Without here windows phones are lame. Just admit it. But I am not leaving. I want to see official declaration its being dead. I would miss here transit. I used it New York Boston, worked like charm. Going to dc soon , will switch back to windows 8.1 if available only for here transit. Microsoft maps works good in windows but I found here stuffs little convenient
Nooooooooooo!!!!
Nooooo!!!
Noooioooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!
I swear Apple and google are paying companies off to kill apps on the platform.
You're half wrong, Google don't have nothing to do with this. Regarding Android as you know Astoria was cancelled officially.
With that said, Apple and iOS mobile apps is the only strategy Microsoft is thinking now to enhance the mobile ecosystem.
The issue is all the base code that currently runs on iOS for big apps has millions/billions of dollars invested in engineer hours for bug fixes, vulnerability assesment, patches, enhancements, etc.
Developing apps is expensive, so software companies that build apps for iOS don't want to invest on .NET technologies to build same app they already have for iOS, thats why Microsoft wants to get rid of .NET apps and invest heavily on iOS bridge so consumers can have for example, the same app they have on Instagram or Snapchat on the iPhone, ported to Windows Mobile in 5 minutes with all the patches and enhancements been done by the same engineer team.
But that requires training and money, but is less than mantaining 2 groups of developers for each big company.
Sad to see it go, but it was inavitable. Stopped using Here since updated to windows 10 on my 1520. I like the new maps much better.
You know what's funny, I have had the 950XL since it came out, and upon this news I went to uninstall HERE maps, only to find I had never installed it.
I've been using winows and bing maps without issue for several months.
HERE's leaving?....Yawn
I wish the phone battery doesn't stop supporting WM and say "goodbye" to the OS one day because I still love my Lumia and the Windows community.
going android then!
Windows phone is dieing people
Posted via the Windows Central App for Android
So is that what today's app update was for? To cobble the apps and prevent them working after 30/06?
Can all the iOS and droid trolls please leave.
Why are you wasting your time and ours bashing something you hate, Go away!!
I need that wallpaper :')
Yea... Its logical... Doesn't make much sense to have Here apps when much better WIndows maps are available with same map data...
Noooooo!!!! One of the compelling reasons reasons for using Windows Phone is HERE! Other solutions are just miles away! Please reconsider... :(
ARGH! Between this continued app issue (and I don't need every 'hot' app, but I need the basic ones like a good mapping solution) and the performance Win10, I'm seriously considering moving on as much as I don't want to.
I want that wallpaper
Here Drive plus will be a massive loss, i will not update to Windows 10 just for Here Drive plus.
Oh well....there goes drive......my favorite..and ONLY Navigation app that I use. DAMN.....
Satyoa Nadella will go down as the worst CEO for Microsoft mobile, he has no idea what the hell he is doing with mobile.
Here maps is one of the reasons (offline maps) ppl buy windows phone. say what you will about Steve Balmer but he knew mobile and what he was doing with it.
Posted via Spaceship One
No .... Not good at all .... And they will keep using HERE data ... There navigation systems are damn good....much better than Microsoft maps
They're called "Smart Phones" for a reason and without the proper apps they become "Dumb Phones". I'm Happy with Windows Phone as an OS (Still on 8.1), but I use HERE maps all the time, I used the CHASE app all the time when it was out. The "NextDoor" which is used and usseful in my neighborood not there. I use 6Tag all the time, but would LOVE to have a dependable offcial Instagram app. I get it not everyone uses the same apps, but I'm sure that's the case for the other platforms. There are a lot of apps, so you use what makes your life easier, better, etc... "My" and I assume many others problem is we don't want to leave the Windows Mobile OS, but we want our apps. I don't get why people get upset about that. Nice phones and nice apps. This SUCKS!!!!!
I will be missing HERE Transit. It was so convenient for sight seeing in cities; all public transports with time tables, connections, station names, travel times. I hope MS will develop a replacement. Why didn't they buy this app from Nokia or from HERE? Why don't they hire the programmer(s) to get up to speed with apps?
Because their active mobile user base on W10 is tiny, almost a rounding error, so its mobile development of their own platform is not a priority. Officially they'll advise using a third party app, until one looks in the barren wasteland that is the W10 mobile store and find a slew of copycat spam maps apps.
Moovit is okay, but they're mainly useable in the U.S., their international public transit info is non-existant.
Y no comments
Wanna hear a serious joke? - Apple Maps!
Wanna hear a slightly less serious joke? - Bing Maps...
Maybe it shows more info for major cities in most countries. But where I live, it's just blocks and blocks of rectangles with occasional labeling here and there. Take out Googls Maps, I can clearly see the label of the small fruit shop near my home, at the street's corner.
Nobody's native maps app, Apple or Microsoft's, will ever be able to touch Google Maps (now with integrated Waze). Google's mapping solution is leagues so far ahead of everyone else, it isn't even a fair comparison.
Well that's a big ole eff you to existing customers. That was one of the very few unique selling points of the Windows Phone platform. I was trying to use the MS Maps app for actual navigation the other day and it crashed the entire phone three times over 40 miles.
I like the reasoning that the Here team has to drop support, "they no longer feel the effort to move to windows 10 is justified" MS are you listening, knock, knock?
I have a lot of places saved in here maps. Is there a way to transfer those places to windows maps?
The windows 10 maps app is superior already, and it merges a vast majority of HEREs features, and does it better.
Really? I tried it a couple months ago and it sucked donkey *alls. The turn by turn navigation was dire, and there was barely any public transit info; using the native MS maps app to plan a trip via the NYC subway was basically impossible, so opened another device that had Google Maps running.
Now this truly is bad news. Been using Here as long as it has been available and the predecessor during the time of Symbian. This may effect even to my future devices. Pity
Seriously?
Mixradio and now here. The two reasons app wise I loved wp. Much as I always will prefer the tile system things getting harder. I use here in my work iphone. If it works there then that may be my solution come upgrade time. Hopefully ms improved their maps app to match the current here ones.
Posted from my magical block of green cheese.
MS should have buy the part of nokia to.... sad day for all MS user, is there even a alternative for a turn by turn GPS on windows 10? I might have to go back to android for this...
but what is going to replace this in w10 mobile
I just gave Maps a try, it works well. Maybe some people are being a bit mellow dramatic about all this.
FFS! I spent an hour yesterday updating Here maps online and syncing to phone. Why? Because Bing maps doesnt have this basic feature. I have a business trip in April with 40 locations on Here. Am I seriously meant to downgrade??!! Lets hope this is similar to Spotify situ. I.e. Win 10 apps to come out anyway.
Why does everybody wanna ditch windows mobile?? I think Microsoft should start a new project which directly ports Desktop apps to Phone. As windows has 95% market but phones have 2%(hardly) so it will be just like Astoria project. Just drag and drop to the place and it will code down for you also as uts windows 10 mobile and desktop and they are almost same, I think some apps will just resize themselves or with negligible coding and edits. OH GOD PLEASE LET WINDOWS MOBILE GROW!! if important apps like Here maps started to ditch it, I doubt others will come.
For the same reason you don't keep bodies around once they die. They're corpses. Rotting. Just like Windows Phone/Mobile.
What!? HERE map is the best in class. Don't force me to change to an android and force me to use scroggle map! MS buy over this dump **** company (HERE).
Some companies forget where they came from. Good riddance. Windows 10 Maps is more reliable than HERE anyway. It's a shame to see all the old Nokia services leaving the Windows ecosystem, but they have been neglected for too long. Other apps caught up and surpassed them.
One of major reason I oped for Windows Phine is Here Maps..
So, goodbye Windows phone!
What about windows phone 8.1?
Too early to rant. Let's wait some more hours for an "incorrect information" statement...
Thankfully the built-in Maps app is now better in most respects than HERE Maps. I still like the big fonts and clear UI of HERE better, but hopefully MS is listening to feedback in that area for more improvements. Too bad the public transit directions in Maps are horrible, that's definitely one area that many people will miss. The Nokia WP era is truly coming to an end.
Idk I use here all the time, imho its better than google maps on my Droid. Can someone tell me where MS maps is located on my phone on win10, I can't find it.
That's a shame. Was in Germany few months ago, and used Here Drive exclusively on the 950XL. Was just more accurate, faster and just easier. The built-in Maps app was horrendous.
Congrats Microsoft, your Phone platform is officially dead.
Now I have no reason whatsoever to upgrade my WP8.1 to Win10 even if you decide to eventually release the update; and the way thing are going even with your own apps, not to mention 3rd party ones like HERE, there is no longer any reason or incentive to stick with a windows phone.
It looked promising when Balmer made the bold move to buy out Nokia, but alas once again internal stupidity of Microsoft and the idiotic way Nadela scrapped it all has put an end to all that Nokia built up and the slowly rising market share that existed at the time before you flushed it all away once again.
You are lucky your presence is so deeply embeded in the PC and enterprise markets.
I am ashamed I ever recommended a WP to anyone.
Just another reason why not to "upgrade" to Win10...
Anyway Microsoft maps are better
Mirrcoosoft should have brought 'HERE' when they had the chance.
True. Consortium got it cheap. And MS will keep paying lisence fees for them.
Reasons to hate Windows 10 :(
Truthfully telling that I was so frustrated with WM 10, I switched back to android last month ( after 3 years, my first windows was L920). I found it not as good as windows platform. Its not like I am now habituated to WM that's why I was uncomfortable with android. There is something missing in android, I don't know what. However, few things I noticed are battery life though it had 3200 Mah battery. System and few app lags though it had octa core processor with 2 gb ram. Camera quality though it had 20 mo camera. Display though it had triluminus ips display. And over all phone performance. Thank god I haven't sold out my L730 which has lesser specs then Sony xperia but I feel even Rs. 35000 android can't beat my low range L730. So I gave android to my younger brother and I rolled back my 730 to 8.1, now I am happy and satisfied. I understood the difference between WM and Android. But matter of fact is WM10 is not lived upto the mark. It has many issues ( pls don't claim that its just insider preview, its almost complete) 8.1 is far far better than WM10. The thing which is really disheartening is we are loosing gr8 apps. Seems MS is not caring about its consumers. Till now with 8.1 , everything is gr8 but the way WM is going abt OS and abt apps, one day we will left with no option but to go for android or iOS. We may not want to switch but MS is compelling us to swtch. MS should seriously think abt it.
I did use my bing app on my android phone to find restaurants and points of interest around me though lol. Bing app on Android is very nice and would have just used my 640 but like I said it's offline.
Posted via the Windows Central App for Android
Exactly bro. Even i did the same. For just a week i used my cousins moto g2. And then realised the true value of windows phone. And now i am loving my Lumia 730 even more. But slightly disappointed as win 10 is still buggy and having less features
Having now tried MS maps on W10 mobile in desperation after reading this I'm a lot less worried... It's much better than I realised and seems to have a lot of the transit, offline maps, nearby search etc built in and also be relatively useable. Seems it could have been a deliberate plan to consolidate a lot of the Here functions into the MS app? Given Here are now a car consortium it kind of makes sense that MS own the windows mobile mapping app rather than them?
Here maps was the major reason for me to buy a WP. It's sad to hear that they are discontinuing. :(
I am currently using a top end android phone waiting for my upgrade to come up and hopefully a HP elite x3 or surface phone. Reverently went on vacation to Connecticut from upstate NY and relied completely on my lumia 640 with Ms maps app as my navigator offline. Never let me down. Can't wait to go back to Windows Mobile.
Posted via the Windows Central App for Android
the top end android phone doesnt mean anything.Clarify what you have because Samsung Galaxy S was also a top end android phone but it 6 years old phone
This is not a good deal!
Most of the Windows users depend on HERE maps, they are probably gonna loose a large customer base and more over we are going to suffer without these maps!
Is there any alternate app which provides offline maps option???
Yes Microsoft build in maps app in win 10 provides offline maps
Bad news for me. Here Maps works perfectly in my city, but the Maps app doesn't even get the directions correctly
Makes sense. When HERE was owned by Nokia it was a natural fit. Providing free ad-free apps with downloadable maps is not HERE's core business. And W10M especially is a lost cause due mastermind strategy.
I don't get it. In the last few months of 2015 the HERE apps weren't available for download on Windows 10 mobile (after it was no longer part of Nokia). They fixed that after a while. And now they pull it from the store again. I don't get it. It's not like much has changed since then.
Posted from Windows Central for Windows 10 mobile with Microsoft Lumia 950 XL
I rarely comment but this is really bad news. WP is all time low now since 8.1. After MixRadio and now HERE. HERE Maps are way better than the default Map App from where I am. This is really sad.
Here maps want to compete with Google maps so they abandon the platform that put them on the "map" ungrateful... They will lose against Google dont they ever here the saying" want all lose all" and a "bird in hand is.better than a bird in bush" they just open the doors for Bing maps to dominate W10 platform across all devices
Just uninstalled all Here maps from my mobile an windows 10 tablet , Windows Maps is just good for my purposes. I don't need you Here apps
Viable alternatives?
Sent from Windows 386
For Map and Navigation, the W10M Map app does a pretty good job and use the same map and data as HERE.
WP is dead guys. It took me a while to accept it too, but the sooner you accept it, the easier it will be. As soon as this 640 dies, it's on to Apple or Android for me. MS had a chance but they blew it and lost my support.
WTF!! It is working fine for me on Windows 10 mobile. Just keep it as is and let us use it!!!
In app says 30 of Jun will stop fo win10
i dont belive it... half news about Windows Phone not true..
Now does the built-in mapping service support offline navigation? That would be the only thing I miss ...
Yes it does..... and it works really well.
Posted from Windows Central for Windows 10
Wow ... ok. So basically it does everything here does?
yep, most of it but only better !!!
I switched a few months back and the Map App is now pretty good and better than the old WP8.1 Here Drive+ !
I agree. The only issue I have with Maps is the UI seems a little goofy. I live in Miami, HERE would ALWAYS take me through awful areas of town, Maps does not. For that reason alone I am happier with maps. The app actually wants me to live not die.
It does it natively. Go to settings on your device, then offline maps. Make sure you have the map(s) downloaded for the areas you commute in most.
Posted from Windows Central for Windows 10
Using the Alcatel OneTouch Fierce XL for Windows 10
Ms is dead. They will never have a place in the new world again
Posted via the Windows Central App for Android
Before I would have thought this was hyperbole, but now I'm thinking you might be right. This is the year MS starts to lose the fans. There will be a mass exodus from windows phone devices soon.
Microsoft is dead...funny statement. It will never be dead when governments all over the world use their OS and some are even upgrading to W10. Some Police departments in the US are using the WP 8.1 and W10M as well.
Posted from Windows Central for Windows 10
Using the Alcatel OneTouch Fierce XL for Windows 10
Just leave Here Maps please...
Since I got my Lumia 950, I haven't use any of the HERE apps. MS Maps works well, supports offline Maps, Street View, Cameras View, Transit....I went to Europe recently and in my 10 day visit I use nothing but MS Maps offline.
Posted from Windows Central for Windows 10
I was a die-hard fan. But since the support diminished greatly few years ago, I've started to drift away from it and now I'm used to it, so frankly I'm not too shaken by this news. Surprised, but not too negatively. I'll be using sygic and Waze for navigating.
From Windows Central App for Windows 10
How human that is possible? Wanted to come back with a 640, but that's not envisaged without offline maps !! Come on world...
Posted via the Windows Central App for Android
Good riddance
One more good reason to stay on WP8.1 .
Earlier mix radio and now here maps.... Next is what.?
Next article: Microsoft decides to cancel messaging app
Microsoft didn't decide anything, its BMW/Audi (car manufacturer) who now own HERE who decided that mobile was no longer worth the effort and rather prefer focus on cars ???
MixRadio was Nokia's dercision, not MS etc etc...
HERE sells map data to MS. Win10 gutted all the HERE app discontinuity.
Someone explain why they'd expect or even want HERE (now owned by BMW, etc.) to program/develop/maintain FREE maps for MS platforms?
I used only the Here apps for my travels, and Waze only in my country. I tried other GMaps+ but I didn't like them. Goodby Here, thanks for the service.
WRONG Info!! The 8/8.1 users will indeed be able to use it, but it will NOT be updated anymore! both the APPS and the MAPS will NOT receive anymore updates. AT least put the news right!
Well, I guess my world is ending now. I don't have a single HERE app installed on my phone!!! The horror!!! Last I checked I can still make phone calls, text, email, take great photos, and use Office. It's a phone! A miniature computer! It's an all-in-one! I use very few apps and I play a game or two...I am still content with my 950 (ever since I finally got an update two weeks ago), it's a nice phone. More apps would be great but it isn't the end all/be all for me.
Direct result of 5+ years of neglect, which continues today, when they should have focused and made their platform viable for devs to support. No one to blame but the incompetent management at Microsoft.
This is very true. You can't effectively hand off your mobile OS to the equivalent of the B team-Summer League, and expect developers to come running. It was ignored and/ or benignely neglected for years, and 2% (and shrinking) share and a paucity of developers on your platform is the result.
This is crazy, though we saw it coming. After the fall of Nokia, HERE was kept close to Lumia phones, but not close enough.
The Maps app is probably good enough to take over, or it can be eventually. What would be nice is to be able to import the data from HERE accounts, regarding favorites. I have a lot because I used HERE a lot, since I got my 920. Maybe before! Wasn't it available in some form for Symbian Nokias?
Anyway, a big loss, but life goes on.
So fickle
It's been over a year since I've used any of their apps. Maps has been working fine for me. Hate to see them go though...
And which is the alternative for here drive?
The MS maps app.
Windows maps on wm10, its not too bad. Couple missing features, but not too bad
But there's no voice on it
Yes there is.
Sent from my Windows 10 PC.
Sure there is, with street name etc (at least in english!).
Lmao maps replace here drive? You're kidding right?
Microsoft.... №1 !!!! Microsoft 950, no connection Here!!! Super...
Aren't you loving life on Windows Phone after Nokia, WP-people? I bet you are... I bet you are...
Posted via the Windows Central App for Android
Sure are, haven't noticed anything different really except maybe a clearer device lineup and more hardware partners.
Sent from my Windows 10 PC.
But then again, you wouldn't see Goodzilla even if it was in front of you.
Have anything to add?
Sent from my Windows 10 PC.
I really like HERE Transit, the option is in the maps app too but not as elegant. But I will not die if it disappears, the next maps updates will fix it.
I agree, "not as elegant"! I really liked the vertical bars and the Transit UI...
are there any decent navigation apps available other than here?
yep, the W10M built in Map app is pretty decent and sue the same Here Map & Content data!
This will be a real blow to Microsoft, unless they provide an equal INTERNATIONAL equivalent apps including:
1) Offline maps and navigation
2) Full transit data - currently for Toronto (GTA) they only work with one(!) transit agency that renders their transit navigation useless and unreliable, their app only works with data.
3) Augmented reality to replace Here city lens.
It seems this week comes with a lot of bad news to me, first my most used app "MixRadio" goes away without any replacement to their wonderful system (no other app has the ability to compose offline playlists for free and without ads)...
I really really hope MS will provide sound solutions to the mounting issues... I do not want to return to Android and I am not interested in Apple.
I'm snookered then. Here Transit was the only app I knew of that could devise public transport routes that worked with the local buses in Northern England. Not sure what to do now since I can't go iOS or Android for now. And because I have a Lumia 950 I can't simply go to 8.1...
Have you tried to bus route in the W10M Maps app?
I also loved transit, (better UI etc) but Maps has vastly improved recently and perhaps worth another look. (the map "transit" feature work well in the south west, England, not sure in the north !)
Well, this was sure to come at some point.
I have used the Maps app on my Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga (w/ Windows 10) and have found that it provides a better experience for both maps and navigation than the Here app.
I'm guessing the situation is pretty much the same on Windows 10 for mobiles. Hoping to find out soon without needing an insider version on my Lumia 930.
Relied on it for such long a long time (Symbian days). Here Drive wad most used app on my phone. Something to brag about in front of iOS and Android friends before it was launched on thier platforms. Now they have it and we don't #Facepalm.
It is such a shame that one more app is discontinued on Windows and we wont be able to say its was a shitload app as we say everytime an app is discontinued.
With all this delays in launch of Windows 10 mobile and apps getting discontinued and very below par usability of the ones which are present (eg Twitter, facebook) I too have started to believe that the ship is sinking. Started to hate Windows 10 mobile even before having it on my phone.
For twitter, have a look at "Fenice" app int he windows store. WC reviewed it some time ago and I find it to be an excellent Twitter (UWP) app !
BTW, W10M has been launched in Nov 2015 with the 950s and now available on 650,550 etc... see http://www.windowscentral.com/e?link=http%3A%2F%2Fclkde.tradedoubler.com...
I have a L950XL and love W10M and the Maps app much more than WP8.1 + Here Drive+...
This makes total sense. Mapping is based on mobility. The majority of Windows 10 users are on PCs and wouldn't use that mapping if it were a Universal Windows app, instead going to their (likely non-W10M) phones. This is a case where UWP just doesn't work for the purpose of the app. It's not indicative of a dying platform as a whole, but it is disappointing to see nonetheless.
Does this mean I have to use... Windows Maps??!!
*hiss* I hate that app
Posted from Windows Central for Windows 10
Have you tried it in a while? It's gotten quite better. I stopped using HERE a quite some time ago because MS Maps had gotten better and I saw this move by HERE on the horizon.
Posted from Windows Central for Windows 10
Using the Alcatel OneTouch Fierce XL for Windows 10
So thankful that I shifted on Android OS I have no problem with every apps that I would like to have. Windows OS and phones are both good but the very limited apps and the laziness of Microsoft to distribute the OS update took so long.
Exactly. If Microsoft wouldn't be lazy than i bet windows os would be king at moment. But dats the dream . Only Microsoft is responsible for its os failure
Someday they even stop it for windows phone 8! Because we are moving to Windows 10!
More reasons to quit windows phone
Very Sad news . Windows Phone is Dead . I will buy a Nexus when one is offered with SD 820 . Any company MS buys it will get ruined . Skype, Nokia and on and on
Wow! I didn't think I'd live to see this day
I don't get what the problem is. Why not use windows 10 maps which uses here data anyway?
It uses the same mapping data, but the navigation software, turn by turn directions, and transit information, well, stink on W10/W10 mobile.
Are they acting like Spotify?
Bad sign!
Omg. The best of the windows features are drowning like any thing. Firstly Microsoft killed double tap to wake option in 950,550 and 650. This was the feature i was proud to have it v on wp. Now more android phones are having this feature which they copied from nokia. Then mix radio gone. Now here maps also. Wtf happening. Here maps was proud feature for wp as it was offline. Now andriod got the best feature of it. So sad. **** you Microsoft for killing all things. And also win 10 is buggy as hell.
I don't get the uproar on this. The MS maps app is built on the same data, and is feature comparable. HERE dropping Windows Mobile says more about the success of the MS app than about the platform itself. HERE can't really compete and distinguish itself here.
Fu*k these id*ots! Here Drive is for me the best app I've seen on Windows Mobile/Phone. This move added to all the other ignored problems might push me to choose another os.
It will surely be same thing like Spotify, the day they'll pull apps very next day they'll publish the whole new UWP app
Guess will have to try MS maps again, hope it's a lot better than last time I tried it. Here Transit is one of my favourite apps though, may actually consider going back to 8.1... added benefit of getting Lumia camera back as well.
MS should have buy HERE from nokia to keep the tur by turn GPS in windows 10... very very bad for windows user, is there aother turn by turn voice GPS on windows?
Super disappointing!
That stinks. I'm uninstalling now--I hate waiting for a countdown. Navigon and Maps will have to do!
Tbh I'm not that bothered, I like Here maps but I've recently only used maps and to be brutally frank it's better in a lot of ways. So whilst it sad and shortsighted in mho, maps is now my daily driver. Mix radio now that I'll really miss.
****! Very useful apps from HERE! And now they don't want to support us already? ****!
Just as I was considering returning to WP. Things just go from bad to worse these days.
Posted via the Windows Central App for Android
Don't worry... There are plenty of navigation apps and the built in Maps-application is great.
Sent from my Windows 10 PC.
Have you tried recent W10M based phone and the W10M map app???
It use the same HERE map and content and provide most of the same functionalities... I switched some time ago and have no regrets (after some time to get use to the new interface)!
I will miss Here City Lens.
Lets abandon the ship, now its the time with a big sign.
I agree. Ppl should leave like the exodus
I won't comment on how the default maps are.. But the fact is more the apps, more the popularity.. And windows 10 is losing core popularity..
I think I'll stick to windows platform till surface phone launch. Hoping for some positive news at d build conference. Till then gmaps, windows maps quite a few alternatives for all d apps except snapchat :P
When Nokia sold their maps division this was bound to happen.
Another reason to #Swtich to Android.
There will never be enough reasons to #Swtich to android, on the other hand i see plenty of reasons not to
when Windows Phone reach the level of BlackBerry OS you wont say the same
Gosh and I actually use the Here apps from time to time. Maybe they will comback when Windows 10 mobile is out.
Windows 10 mobile is already out, since november
being a die hard windows fan, this is so disgusting... !!! HERE apps are still best and unbeatable... i loved it... seriosuly i hate this and without a reason they are stopping it. Probably time to start hating windows..
Well I'm not sure if it's true anymore since WC had füçkēd up 2 articles on the same thing
Posted via the Windows Central App for Android
I guess HERE has simply decided to focus on integrating their platform in cars since they are now owned by car manufacturers...
With this change of strategy, mobile device may not be worth the investment in further development team and support! BB first, then WP platform... what's next? iOS and Android (since both platform have an alternative and google maps)?
The only time I use HERE vs. Maps is if I want to look at the subway lines. If MS Maps gets that feature by 6/30, then I will somehow survive.
I will really miss here drive and city lens
Pages