Traffic app Waze runs on 4 operating systems
Waze, the crowdsourced mobile traffic information application I covered when it originally launched for Google Android, and more recently the iPhone, is now available for every major mobile operating system except Blackberry. Announced today at the DemoFall 09 tech conference in San Diego, the added support for Waze could mean big things for users of the application. Why? Every user of the app feeds real-time traffic information back into its infrastructure. The more people using the application, the more accurate and comprehensive the turn-by-turn directions, traffic flow and incident information are. Symbian is the most widely used operating system in the world, adding a potential plethora of users. Waze will also support voice prompts for directions in its current iteration, and show the location of other users as well. The latter feature sounds like fun, but let’s just hope that the user uptake isn’t so exponential that it causes nothing more than screen clutter!
