The maps application on Mango now comes with voice search and turn-by-turn navigation. Let's call this gizmo Bing Navigation for now. Bing Navigation is just like Google navigation on Android, at least it tries to be. Yet fails.
The reason for me calling Microsoft's take on navigation in Mango a failure is the ridiculously limited number of options to enter a navigation target. Mango offers voice search, but only in the maps, not the navigation part of the app. The voice search button is available when you are searching for a map location but not for entering a trip destination. This baffles me since exactly in those situations where you decidedly do not want to type, e.g. navigating while driving, you have to. Plus, Mango does not offer favorites, recently found locations or contact addresses as destination options. This makes keyboard input the one and only way of entering a trip target in Bing Navigation. Talk about a bare-bones navigation system without wit or intelligence and Mango delivers. Granted, you can use the variety of search options in maps view and then switch to the navigation view but this is not the way usability works.
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