I've started playing with Waze (thanks to the comments of other members). This morning it warned me that there was rain in .3 miles. It was right.

I thought that was pretty neat so I hopped on my Bluetooth and called my wife. In the midst of conversation Waze reported a car on the side of the road and my Bluetooth kicked off of the car speaker and upon recovery my conversation went to the phone itself.

I am using a Note 2 and am thinking this is a function of the phone, not the car. Does anybody have a work around?

Does anybody know a way for the phone messaging (turn here, police ahead, ...) to feed through the car speakers? This could be the work around I'm looking for.

 

I use waze religiously. Every time I am in my car. I have the dension system and I plug my iphone5 directly in. When on a phone call through bt over the car speakers you Can still hear waze lightly in the background.

 

Do you plug the iPhone5 directly in with the USB/Lightening cable for music playing, and use the same phone for phone call but via bluetooth bt?

Or everything via bt with the same iPhone5?

Thanks.

 

On iPhone just turn off wave audio in settings and it won't interrupt. I don't tend to use the audible directions anyway.

 

I used Waze until Apple Maps got better. I might be missing out.

 

Waze is community based and from what I have seen of it so far it has a fun "personality" of sorts. I told my sister about it and discovered she has used it for the last six months. On one trip they were being advised of turkeys on the shoulder. I have always preferred Google Maps for their satellite view, but this seems entertaining. I told it I only wanted Chevron gas, and I am discovering stations I didn't know about, but only Chevron. Tonight I got awarded my first road candy. I admit that I don't have a clue what that means! Other members have a lot more experience and can probably do a better job discussing it.

 

I plug it in directly. Plays my music, charges my phone and allows for phone calls. I use a small phone holder made by Kenu which is perfect. The coolest feature on Waze is that you can choose a car and there are not 1 or 2 but 4 911's to choose from including a 997. Clearly a 911 guy that helped with the design of waze. There is also a red beetle, a smart car, a red ferrari, a race car and then boring ones like suv, grey sedan etc.
I have a red 930 turbo as my icon.

I use two Escort Radar detectors in my car but I almost always know where the cops are way ahead of time due to waze. Like 2-3 miles ahead. Specially on the interstates. It is the one driving tool I never leave home without

 

I use it frequently. However, I do get annoyed by the "vehicle on shoulder ahead" (who cares?) and "rain ahead" (it's florida. There's always rain ahead.)
Just tell me where the traffic jams and cops are please...

 

Just downloaded it and am going to give it a try, looks like a child's video game :P

 

I second that...

Not very good for traffic, but I love it for the police reports. That combined with V1 is dangerously reliable Situational Awareness.

 

I have the Dension BT in my 997 and I link my phone to the PCM via the Dension BT and then either stream audio off my phone or Pandora. When doing it this way, the direction prompts and Waze warnings come throught the car speakers - it quits the music, makes the Waze announcement and then the music resumes. When not streaming BT through the speakers for music, the Waze info comes out the hands-free speaker of my Android phone - works great. A lot of this is configurable in the Waze app settings.

I too find the " Watch out - vehicle stopped on shoulder ahead" to be a very annoying warning. I sent a note to Waze recently asking them in the next release to make the different hazards individually selectable in the App settings so you could enable Police, Object on Road, etc, but disable vehicle stopped on shoulder. We'll see if they listed to their users at all and implement this enhanced customization or not.

Love it though - it also uses less battery than the satellite imagery of Google maps which I also used to use.

 

I must be missing something with Waze because it was worthless when we drove down the coast from Seattle to Pt. Reyes, CA. It basically didn't tell us of anything useful other than that we'd consumed a lot of road candy. We found Trapster much more useful because it provided continual and accurate feedback on speed limits and "known enforcement points". The later feature saved me a ticket driving through a sleepy little town.

I'd guess that Waze is very geographic dependent, working well in places that have a lot of traffic and conscientious drivers who are providing data. So use what works best in your area. The lesson I learned is not to drive without an app like this.

+1 on the Kenu air vent mount BTW. It'll even accommodate an iPhone 6 though not a 6 plus.

 

Waze is one of the best apps ive used, period.

 

WAZE saved my butt in Colorado, told me of a cop ahead, slowed down and car in front was stopped.
Warning before my passport kicked in
Use it a lot.

 

I turn on waze specially for police alert. Everything else is disabled

You have to plug in the phone or else the battery will be drained. That's the only downside that I see.

In fact, I think waze alone is better than v1 in areas where there are lots of traffic. On road trips, I think v1 is still needed.