Google Maps or Waze?

EssexExile

Jenni_D said:

EssexExile said:

Not as strange as Volvo's built-in system though.

Care to elucidate please? My new Volvo - V60 PHEV - is delayed again but should hopefully be here by the end of next month. As it is a company car then there wasn't the option to add Android Auto so I'd be stuck with Volvo's own satnav... hence my interest in your comment.

skycatcher said:

I've been using herewego...i prefer the display to Google maps.

Is that one that can work offline? (The name rings a bell ... might have previously just been called Here).

Some new Volvos come with the Android Automotive operating system, in which case you get Google maps. Some Volvos come with their own Sensus operating system, which is what I have. It's just not as good as Google, up on the North York moors I asked it for guidance and it said "proceed to the nearest road" although I was on an A road at the time. In other places the voice will guide you well and the little arrow shows you where you are on the screen - but there are no roads shown! I suppose the main problem is that you have to physically download map updates when Volvo sees fit to issue them.

maurice28

EssexExile said:

Jenni_D said:

EssexExile said:

Not as strange as Volvo's built-in system though.

Care to elucidate please? My new Volvo - V60 PHEV - is delayed again but should hopefully be here by the end of next month. As it is a company car then there wasn't the option to add Android Auto so I'd be stuck with Volvo's own satnav... hence my interest in your comment.

skycatcher said:

I've been using herewego...i prefer the display to Google maps.

Is that one that can work offline? (The name rings a bell ... might have previously just been called Here).

Some new Volvos come with the Android Automotive operating system, in which case you get Google maps. Some Volvos come with their own Sensus operating system, which is what I have. It's just not as good as Google, up on the North York moors I asked it for guidance and it said "proceed to the nearest road" although I was on an A road at the time. In other places the voice will guide you well and the little arrow shows you where you are on the screen - but there are no roads shown! I suppose the main problem is that you have to physically download map updates when Volvo sees fit to issue them.

Yes, I think if your V60 trim level is called Core, Dark or something like that (i.e. a 2022 model) it will have Android Automotive built in. If it's a Momentum, R-Design or something like that, it will have the Sensus. I think the new 2022 ones are only being delivered later this year, so you may have the Sensus system.

Jenni_D

maurice28 said:

EssexExile said:

Jenni_D said:

EssexExile said:

Not as strange as Volvo's built-in system though.

Care to elucidate please? My new Volvo - V60 PHEV - is delayed again but should hopefully be here by the end of next month. As it is a company car then there wasn't the option to add Android Auto so I'd be stuck with Volvo's own satnav... hence my interest in your comment.

skycatcher said:

I've been using herewego...i prefer the display to Google maps.

Is that one that can work offline? (The name rings a bell ... might have previously just been called Here).

Some new Volvos come with the Android Automotive operating system, in which case you get Google maps. Some Volvos come with their own Sensus operating system, which is what I have. It's just not as good as Google, up on the North York moors I asked it for guidance and it said "proceed to the nearest road" although I was on an A road at the time. In other places the voice will guide you well and the little arrow shows you where you are on the screen - but there are no roads shown! I suppose the main problem is that you have to physically download map updates when Volvo sees fit to issue them.

Yes, I think if your V60 trim level is called Core, Dark or something like that (i.e. a 2022 model) it will have Android Automotive built in. If it's a Momentum, R-Design or something like that, it will have the Sensus. I think the new 2022 ones are only being delivered later this year, so you may have the Sensus system.

It was the R-Design that I ordered (back in October), but the dealer has also confirmed that mine will come with the 18.8 kWh battery pack (whereas the model ordered - I assume it was 2022 early - was supposed to have 11.6 kWh). So perhaps I'm actually getting one of the first newer models?

I guess I'll know for sure in a month or so.

EssexExile

Jenni_D said:

maurice28 said:

EssexExile said:

Jenni_D said:

EssexExile said:

Not as strange as Volvo's built-in system though.

Care to elucidate please? My new Volvo - V60 PHEV - is delayed again but should hopefully be here by the end of next month. As it is a company car then there wasn't the option to add Android Auto so I'd be stuck with Volvo's own satnav... hence my interest in your comment.

skycatcher said:

I've been using herewego...i prefer the display to Google maps.

Is that one that can work offline? (The name rings a bell ... might have previously just been called Here).

Some new Volvos come with the Android Automotive operating system, in which case you get Google maps. Some Volvos come with their own Sensus operating system, which is what I have. It's just not as good as Google, up on the North York moors I asked it for guidance and it said "proceed to the nearest road" although I was on an A road at the time. In other places the voice will guide you well and the little arrow shows you where you are on the screen - but there are no roads shown! I suppose the main problem is that you have to physically download map updates when Volvo sees fit to issue them.

Yes, I think if your V60 trim level is called Core, Dark or something like that (i.e. a 2022 model) it will have Android Automotive built in. If it's a Momentum, R-Design or something like that, it will have the Sensus. I think the new 2022 ones are only being delivered later this year, so you may have the Sensus system.

It was the R-Design that I ordered (back in October), but the dealer has also confirmed that mine will come with the 18.8 kWh battery pack (whereas the model ordered - I assume it was 2022 early - was supposed to have 11.6 kWh). So perhaps I'm actually getting one of the first newer models?

I guess I'll know for sure in a month or so.

Don't get too excited about getting Android Automotive Jenni! Pop over to the Volvo owners club forum and see what they think of it. The good thing is it gets over the air updates, the bad thing is it needs them, lots of them. You'll recognise my user name there.

maurice28

EssexExile said:

Jenni_D said:

maurice28 said:

EssexExile said:

Jenni_D said:

EssexExile said:

Not as strange as Volvo's built-in system though.

Care to elucidate please? My new Volvo - V60 PHEV - is delayed again but should hopefully be here by the end of next month. As it is a company car then there wasn't the option to add Android Auto so I'd be stuck with Volvo's own satnav... hence my interest in your comment.

skycatcher said:

I've been using herewego...i prefer the display to Google maps.

Is that one that can work offline? (The name rings a bell ... might have previously just been called Here).

Some new Volvos come with the Android Automotive operating system, in which case you get Google maps. Some Volvos come with their own Sensus operating system, which is what I have. It's just not as good as Google, up on the North York moors I asked it for guidance and it said "proceed to the nearest road" although I was on an A road at the time. In other places the voice will guide you well and the little arrow shows you where you are on the screen - but there are no roads shown! I suppose the main problem is that you have to physically download map updates when Volvo sees fit to issue them.

Yes, I think if your V60 trim level is called Core, Dark or something like that (i.e. a 2022 model) it will have Android Automotive built in. If it's a Momentum, R-Design or something like that, it will have the Sensus. I think the new 2022 ones are only being delivered later this year, so you may have the Sensus system.

It was the R-Design that I ordered (back in October), but the dealer has also confirmed that mine will come with the 18.8 kWh battery pack (whereas the model ordered - I assume it was 2022 early - was supposed to have 11.6 kWh). So perhaps I'm actually getting one of the first newer models?

I guess I'll know for sure in a month or so.

Don't get too excited about getting Android Automotive Jenni! Pop over to the Volvo owners club forum and see what they think of it. The good thing is it gets over the air updates, the bad thing is it needs them, lots of them. You'll recognise my user name there.

I was also considering a new V60 at one point but the issues with the software were a bit offputting. Also, is it true you have to activate cruise control each time through the central screen, before you can use the steering wheel buttons? Seems madness if so.

Jenni_D

For me it was a choice of the V60, a Skoda Superb PHEV estate, or a trade up (cost £50 per month [less tax]) to a BMW 330e PHEV estate. (It's a company car). I fancied the BMW but couldn't justify the extra cost per month, and I preferred the spec of the Volvo vs the Skoda, so I went for the Volvo.

It'll be my first Volvo so I can't answer your question - maybe @EssexExile can.

Edit: apologies to the OP for the side-track.  

cpbackhouse

maurice28 said:
I was also considering a new V60 at one point but the issues with the software were a bit offputting. Also, is it true you have to activate cruise control each time through the central screen, before you can use the steering wheel buttons? Seems madness if so.

I have an XC60 with Android and other than switching the function between Speed Limiter and Cruise Control you just use the steering wheel mounted controls to turn it on and off etc. 

I really like the Google maps in it and haven't really had any of the issues that some people have been mentioning on the forums, but this is my first Volvo so maybe I just don't know the features I am missing. I know there has also just been a big Version 2 update that is supposed to sort lots of issues and I quite like the fact that new features will be added / up-dated like you get with your smartphone etc.

EssexExile

cpbackhouse said:

maurice28 said:
I was also considering a new V60 at one point but the issues with the software were a bit offputting. Also, is it true you have to activate cruise control each time through the central screen, before you can use the steering wheel buttons? Seems madness if so.

I have an XC60 with Android and other than switching the function between Speed Limiter and Cruise Control you just use the steering wheel mounted controls to turn it on and off etc. 

I really like the Google maps in it and haven't really had any of the issues that some people have been mentioning on the forums, but this is my first Volvo so maybe I just don't know the features I am missing. I know there has also just been a big Version 2 update that is supposed to sort lots of issues and I quite like the fact that new features will be added / up-dated like you get with your smartphone etc.

I think you've hit the nail on the head there CP. Volvo fans had been getting really excited about Android Automotive thinking it would be way better than Sensus. Like anything new, and especially anything new and techy, it wasn't quite the finished article when it was introduced. Each new update seems to make two things better and one worse. It will get there one day. Anyone who wasn't familiar with Sensus will probably be quite happy Android Automotive.

JustAnotherSaver

Question regards Waze -

Is there a way to set various locations?

There's Home & Work but we all have more places to go to than home & work.

In Google Maps I can set a location for Dave's house, Jane's house, the takeaway spot, the park, so on & so forth.

If you can do it in Waze then how?

400ixl

Yes you can save your own places.

Open Waze, click on my waze at the bottom of the screen and then select the saved places tab on the screen that appears.

Personally I use Waze in the car a lot more than I do Google Maps. The crowd sourcing of up to date information is better in Waze making it more real time. Google maps I tend to use more for searching locations and for walking directions.