From the Beta Labs website, the changes in this beta version are:
- Improved application start up
- Brand new menu with one touch access to content and services
- New and improved one-box search
- New features in car navigation service: ‘Drive home’ and ‘Track me’,
- New features in the pedestrian navigation service: ‘Walk home’ and ‘Track me’,
- Text-to-speech for voice guidance in car and pedestrian navigation, currently available for English and German. More languages will follow for the commercial release.
- Features currently not supported in this release:
- English only for the application language:
- Other languages will follow in the commercial release
- No satellite and terrain maps (only in Walk mode)
- Traffic updates options are only manual or timed, e.g. Every 5, 10, 20, 40 minutes.