An important new version of the Taxibeat app is available. Version 2.0 for iOS devices is waiting for you in the App Store to download (Android users, you will have to wait some more days, hopefully not many).

The 2.0 version brings many new features, and we are very excited about this milestone. It introduces significant new information that will make your experience even more exciting. After all, most of the new features we’ve added, are based on your feedback.

So what’s new in the Taxibeat 2.0 for iPhone?

First of all, the fact that you can see the available drivers, not just in a list as it has been until now, but on the map, exactly where they are. Not only that though, but you can see them and as they move in real time. Just see the pictures below and you’ll get it:

On one hand, the classic “list” screen of drivers (with more info, but more on this in a moment). On the other hand, tapping on the “Map View” button, you can see the new screen with exactly the same drivers located onto the map. If some of these drivers are moving, you will see them as they move; real time.

“Zoom in” on the map to see where exactly is every available driver, and who is closer to your position. Want to see details of a driver? Tap on his/her icon and see all the same information you have on the “list” view while you continue seeing her on the map:

With a simple tap on the map the zoom level is restored again and you see all the available drivers. If a driver is no longer available, she will simply disappear from the map.

Go back to the “list” view. It does not resemble the exact same list that you are accustomed to seeing, right? We’ve put up some additional information about the driver. You can see the languages that​ she speaks. But also the extra services she offers. For example, does she accept credit cards? Is the vehicle air conditioned? Will she accept you if you have your pet? Does she provide a charger for your mobile if needed, or free wifi to use it?

How will you understand what each icon represents? Simple; just click on the “i” icon high on the screen. It will display all the explanations for the relevant icons.

Finally, do not forget to notice the driver’s distance in the “list” view. We’ve put it in a green trapezoid. If the driver is moving at that moment, you see the number of the distance change. In real time.

We are very happy and very proud. With each new improvement in the Taxibeat service, we feel that we raise the bar, and it remains an international standard in the mobile taxi services. Prepare for many more coming, hopefully soon.

Your feedback and ideas are always valuable. We hear you, wherever you express yourself online.

People often speak about technology’s “miracles”. Even though it cannot be applied literally, it also has some sense of truth. With the locating based services of the modern mobile phones, we have enormous opportunities,unimaginable in the past.

The Taxibeat exploits these features to show us not only the position but also the availability of a taxis near us as well as many other information: drivers name, car model, its current distance from us and the average rating of his previous Taxibeat passengers.

The mobile phone becomes a “pair of eyes” allowing us to see what we couldn’t see in the past. With Taxibeat you can choose and call anyone of the available drivers, just by setting the pick up point from which you want him to come. From the moment the driver accepts the call, we have the opportunity to see him moving on the map in real time until he reaches the pick up point. Quite impressive, isn’t it? When the driver arrives we receive a message on our phone that the taxi has arrived and all we have to do is to get in it

And all this without interfering with any telephone calls, its all automatically done with a tap on the screen. At the end of a path we can rate and comment on our driver by choosing how many stars we want to give him – from one to five stars. Rating a driver is very useful information for future passengers that will want to use Taxibeat.