14 DAY TRIAL // The fine folks at HERE announced three months ago that they planned to bring their navigation app to Samsung Gear S3 when the smartwatch got released in Q4 2016.
True to their promise, the team at HERE launched WeGo app for Samsung Gear S3 in the Tizen store, and as many of you probably guess, it's available for free. HERE WeGo is one of the best navigation apps, alongside Google Maps and Waze.
“We had a very difficult and tight schedule, which was one of the toughest challenges we faced. Building a user interface that’s really customizable in Tizen, making it do exactly what we wanted it to do, was not an easy process, and it’s taken us just 30-45 days so far.
That’s a very short amount of time considering the number of variables we deal with,” said Tamer Nassif, senior engineer manager responsible for product development at HERE.
Having put their app inside the original Gear S and Gear S2, the team at HERE have decided to make the new version for the Gear S3 much better in terms of functionality.
So, the latest version of HERE WeGo for the Samsung Gear S3 is expected to offer a comprehensive mapping experience with places search and route planning by car, on foot and public transit.
HERE WeGo for the Gear S3 is a standalone application that allows users to navigate towns, cities and other locations. The developers even plan to add bike navigation for those using this traveling method.
More importantly, the new HERE WeGo app is backwards-compatible with the older Samsung Gear S2 smartwatches. Among the features that will eventually be part of the app, developers mentioned offline navigation.
Those of you who already purchased the Samsung Gear S3 smartwatch can go ahead and download the new HERE WeGo app for free, which is now available in the Tizen store.