HondaLink Navigation NA App Reviews

For more than a year finally see one useful enhancement. Speak street name is a good enhancement. But to launch the map take longer time, not sure if this is caused by Honda link app which increase use data size after each launch the map? Please continue enhance the map and fix bugs.

When connected to my 2015 Fit, there is no navigation audio. When I disconnect and use the navigation app as standalone on my iPhone, theres audio. On the phone with tech support now.

This app is a step in the right direction, but I do find some glaring issues with the app: 1. If I have music playing from my phone and I go to the next track, the app goes from full screen app to not covering the full screen (on the car’s display). It adds black borders on the sides and the only way around it is to get out of and into the app on my phone. Or, I can go back into the Connect option and choose navigation. Either way, it’s a pain when you’re paying for the 7” display to have it cut out into black borders for no reason. 2. The choice of mapping service and the color choices probably needs a little more thorough analysis. The colors are otherwise fine, but we’re in 2015 and there have been a lot of revisions in color-centric design. Pastel-like colors are simple, but the phone is doing the rendering. Let the phone use its own native or third party map data (Apple or Google Maps) so people don’t have to reacquaint themselves with another new color scheme. The lesser the cognitive load on the user, the more they feel at home with the app. 3. Do not require the use/installation of the Connect app. It’s entirely useless and detracts from the experience of using the app. How I use the app is very simple: I open up the Navigation app and enter the directions and hit start (sometimes in my car and other times before I even go to my car). Then, I connect it to my car (or already have it connected). When I do connect it after setting it up, the car begs me to open the Connect app. I have no interest in another app if I’m broadcasting an outbound signal to the car telling it to mirror this app’s data onto it. What requires the car to prompt me to open another app and go to Navigation through that app? This is an asinine step. When this occurs after the drive has begun, I either have to stop or fiddle with it when the car is in motion. The former is an inconvenience and the latter is a pretty big safety issue. 4. If you’ll charge the money for the app, I expect a properly developed application that supports the gamut of devices Honda manufactures. There’s no excuse to demand us to fork over $60 in cash for the app (in addition to the thousands of dollars on the cars), but deliver what a free app delivers with limited added value. This requires a lot of time and thought on your end. You’re capable of it and it’s time for you to uphold your end of the deal. Edit: 5. Theres a bug that took me forever to isolate the cause and identify a solution. Its the screen-size reducing bug. It shows up when youre using HDMI for audio and choose tracks on your phone (like a normal person). Every time a song changes, it reduces the screen size by half an inch. The manual (and stupid) way to change it is to go back to the Honda link home screen and go back into navigation. The more distracting, unsafe, and the way Honda expects us to use the system is to switch the audio input to Bluetooth (iPod) and choose the tracks from the navigation screen (Home -> Audio). What the heck? You want to force me to use a system this way distracting from the road if I need music? This is one solution as useless as the problem its supposed to fix. Worst. Issue still has not been fixed, dropped to two stars (April 8, 2016). That said, this is a stable app. The prior versions had a bug, but the stability has been refined. In regards to usability, this application is usable. Nothing in my experience suggests that you cannot use it without crashing or causing any harm to the user or the devices (car and phone) involved in the app’s usage. Despite its normal usage, it appears to be just that: extremely normal. It does nothing original that separates it from the pack besides seeking out (and winning the bid for) monopoly over displaying app content on your car’s HDMI screen. If I could do the same with Apple Maps or Google Maps, I’d gladly use it over this one. If it sounds like I’m fairly confused over how I rate it, it’s probably because I am. It does its job fairly well: it does not crash at all and gives me proper directions every time I had to use it. It also fails very well: the maps aren’t always updated frequently (I can’t expect them to know all the slightest changes in Reno, NV, Fairbanks, AK, Mobile, AL, etc. and I’ll concede that fairly) and listings physically near me aren’t always visible on the map. The interface is pretty clunky and suggests that maybe an outside contractor developed it for Honda instead of an in-house development team that knows all the insider details to perform a proper integration. I am optimistically hoping that this will change over the next few weeks. Please do not disappoint me, Honda.

Since latest update navigation app has NO Service message!!!! I usually love this app. Its better than Google maps and imaps but if it cannot get service it is useless. Please work on this issue!