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This is just like Google blocking Maps on Windows Phone; there's a video where someone changed the agent from "Windows Phone 8" to "Windows Phne 8" and suddenly
by broodbucket 13y ago
This is just like Google blocking Maps on Windows Phone; there's a video where someone changed the agent from "Windows Phone 8" to "Windows Phne 8" and suddenly maps.google.com actually worked. I'm not a Microsoft fan, but I do rather like my Windows Phone, and I wish they would stop squabbling so I can have a YouTube app and change the search engine from Bing.
- barista 13y agoOf course it doesn't matter much with the nokia mapping apps on the nokia phones being a better alternative.
- HelloMcFly 13y agoThose apps are available on non-Nokia phones now too.
- sp332 13y agoGoogle Maps works OK (not great) if you install the official Google app and search for a place name. http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/google/220bfbf2-ee02-496c-a656-651a6c0c6518 http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/google/220bfbf2-...
- HelloMcFly 13y agoI've subsequently found that Nokia Here maps work every bit as well for me as Google Maps ever did when I had my Android.
- ihsw 13y agoFrom what I recall, the issue was with users having "phone" in their user agent rather than "Windows Phone 8."
- Coincoin 13y agoAt some point, google were sabotaging any page visited through their domain using WP8. It would proxy everything alla google translate and serve a text only version of the whole web under the pretext that "my phone's browser sucked and they were helping me". But it's ok as long as you pretend to do no evil.
- epochwolf 13y agoThat's because there was /\bPhone\b/ in the user-agent.