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Waze is a free navigation app for your GPS equipped smartphone. It has the following features:

Spoken turn-by-turn directions
Spoken street names (Text-to-Speech) ^[a]
Real time traffic reports
Real time Gas Prices ^[b]
Toll road avoidance ^[b]
Free regular updates to the map that you can help make are installed automatically
Search for destinations how you like: entire address at once, category, place name, landmark or use the addresses from your contacts
Integrated destination search: Google, Foursquare, Bing
Support for apps to insert destinations into Waze, such as Localscope
Support for multiple languages
Gaming elements for fun and integrated social networking

^a BETA: in selected countries
^b Toll Roads and Gas Prices dependent on user contribution

Read more about the amazing way Waze gets better when you just drive around with Waze turned on

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-Waze is a [[How to get the free Waze client|free navigation app]] for your [[Client device|GPS equipped smartphone]]. Waze includes spoken turn-by-turn directions, free map updates you can help make, searches by road and place names, landmarks and Google Local Search and [[road reports|real-time traffic updates]] from other [[glossary|wazers]]. [[Social networking]] and [[gaming elements]] are optional features.
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-We can help you [[Getting Started|getting started]] using Waze, show you how to [[improve and edit the maps]] and invite you to [[Help Improve Waze|make Waze even better]]. Like all navigation apps Waze is [[Problems and Issues|not yet perfect]] but we have lots of [[Development Plans|new developments]] coming. And source code and information on changes and how Waze works is available for the [[Technical Information|technically minded]].
+-->Waze is a free navigation app for your GPS equipped smartphone. It has the following features:
+* Spoken turn-by-turn directions
+* Spoken street names (Text-to-Speech) {{ref label|a|a}}
+* Real time traffic reports
+* Real time Gas Prices {{ref label|b|b}}
+* Toll road avoidance {{ref label|b|b}}
+* Free regular updates to the map that [[improve and edit the maps| you can help make]] are installed automatically
+* Search for destinations how you like: entire address at once, category, place name, landmark or use the addresses from your contacts
+* Integrated destination search: Google, Foursquare, Bing
+* Support for apps to insert destinations into Waze, such as Localscope
+* Support for multiple [[Countries and Languages| languages]]
+* Gaming elements for fun and integrated [[social networking]]
-Waze gets better when you '''just drive around with Waze turned on'''. You don't need to do anything. Read how this [[Just drive around with Waze turned on|amazing process]] works.
+<small>{{note|a|a}} BETA: in selected countries<br/>
+{{note|b|b}} Toll Roads and Gas Prices dependent on user contribution</small>
+Read more about the amazing way Waze gets better when you [[just drive around with Waze turned on]]
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