Having covered 25 jobs on Saturday I've probably used the latest version more than anyone else. I find the navigation OK, the routes aren't always the one's I'd follow but they'll get you to the destination and it's easy to silence with the speaker icon. The number of riders entering destinations is increasing all the time (possibly down to it being an exceptionally busy night with punters figuring they're more likely to get service if they input their destination) so the navigation feature makes the job a lot easier for the immigrants that can't speak english and haven't a clue where they're going - it's a while since we had a whinge about them! It'll also prove hugely beneficial to new entrants. Back when I started we had nothing more than the map book, how things have changed. The way it's going it won't be long before the fukking cars driver themselves!
On the negative side the Android app no longer posts a notification icon when it's running in the background. This breaks convention and flies in the face of best practice guidelines which state that the icon is necessary (not just desirable) to let the user know that the app is using his device's resources. It also provides a simply way to call the app to the foreground and switch between apps. However, mytaxi's background running was always shit so this could be deliberate to encourage drivers to keep it on screen, particularly with new firms launching driver apps,
Aside from that, the fare entry process is still shit. It took 13 minutes to load the payment screen after one job on Saturday night, I'd forgotten what the fukking fare was by the time it popped up! It hasn't crashed as such for me yet but I've had to force close it a couple of times when it froze on job cancelled by passenger alerts. I also had a client tell me he cancelled without my having been told but that's happened a few times prior to the latest updates.
