Waze: the app that saves you from traffic and fines [Review]

Let’s be honest: I drive a car. I hate traffic. I get lost a lot. So when I heard there was an app that combined GPS navigation with traffic updates, it was installed on my phone within the hour. I was willing to try anything. Fortunately, as it turned out, Waze is actually pretty darn good.

What is Waze?

Waze is an app for iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Symbian — basically, pretty much everyone with a GPS function on their mobile device. It maps your routes automatically as you drive and sends information about your speed to other Wazers. So if you’re sitting in a traffic jam puttering along at a miserable 2kph, the users 10 minutes behind you will be told to take another route. Hey, you’re stuck there anyway, so you might as well help out your fellow drivers. It works really well — the app diligently alerted me to traffic jams by covering my screen with a smattering of warnings as soon as I started in the direction of the freeway.