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Updated Location Finder, Integration Added with HERE Apps

Location Finder

Location Finder is really a Home windows Phone application which goes beyond determining where you stand but additionally provides geocoding, reverse geocoding, Live Tile support, the opportunity to generate directions to saved locations and Skydrive backup for locations.   

The Home windows Phone 8 form of the navigation application was up-to-date yesterday to version 5.5 and adds integration with Nokia’s HERE applications as well as your Home windows Phone Peoples Hub.  You might also need the obligatory performance improvements and minor bug fixes but integration would need to function as the key phrase with this particular update.

To begin with, Location Finder’s interface was tweaked very slightly allow it a little cleaner appearance.  Nothing earth breaking, just cleaner.  The large change using the version 5.5 update is by using integration.  You have the capacity to:

  • Update a previous address Book Connection with the address information out of your current location.
  • Launch Nokia’s HERE Transit out of your Saved Locations screen.
  • Launch Nokia’s HERE Drive+ out of your Saved Locations screen.
  • Instantly generate “Travel To” voice command for saved locations additionally to “Drive To” and “Walk To” voice instructions.  The “Travel To” command launches Nokia’s HERE Transit application.

Another feature from the version 5.5 update is really a treatment for the crashes problem familiar with non-British locales when starting a saved location.

Location Finder
Location Finder's Webpage, Map Screen and Save Locations

Overall the up-to-date form of Location Finder provides the Home windows Phone 8 application a little more muscle into it.  The application can prove useful when you really need to keep in mind a particular just right the street or perhaps when going through the outdoors and you have to remember in which you setup camping.

There's an effort version readily available for Location Finder using the full version running $.99.  Again, the version 5.5 update only is applicable towards the Home windows Phone 8 form of Location Finder.  The Home windows Phone 7.x version remains at version 1.6.

You'll find Location Finder here within the Home windows Phone Store.

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