{"id":3888,"date":"2010-07-09T09:45:05","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T07:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/?p=3888"},"modified":"2010-07-09T09:45:05","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T07:45:05","slug":"great-travel-guides-for-the-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/09\/great-travel-guides-for-the-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Travel guides for the iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.norai.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/condenasttraveler_ny-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3889\" title=\"condenasttraveler_ny\" src=\"https:\/\/cloud.norai.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/condenasttraveler_ny-1-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Cond\u00e9 Nast Digital Britain recently unveiled a series of apps for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/iphone\">iPhone<\/a> and iPod touch, dubbed Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveller City Guides. There are four separate apps for Barcelona, New York, Paris and Rome priced at around $9.99 each.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/new-york-conde-nast-traveller\/id377178835?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">apps<\/a> [iTunes link] are divided into six sections containing more than 500 searchable listings, complete with venue information, photos and editors\u2019 reviews:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Neighbourhoods: <\/strong>Browse all listings in a single neighborhood<\/li>\n<li><strong>See &amp; Do: <\/strong>Major sites, museums, parks, farmers markets and other attractions<\/li>\n<li><strong>Places to Stay: <\/strong>Organized according to location, price range, type (i.e. fashionable, family-friendly or classic), and a key feature (gym\/spa, internet access, etc.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eat &amp; Drink: <\/strong>Mainly high-end sit-down restaurants with some exceptions, like a well-known knishery and an East Village dumpling house<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shopping: <\/strong>Features an array of products, including apparel, home, records and electronics from high-end to outlets<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nightlife: <\/strong>Bars, music, dancing and other venues for late-night entertainment<\/li>\n<li><strong>Word of Mouth<\/strong>: Recommendations from celebrated New Yorkers like designers Oscar de la Renta and Paul Smith, nightclub owner Amy Sacco and architect Carlos Almadada<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The list of venues is well-curated; there are enough to appeal to a relatively broad array of tastes without being overwhelming. Users can bookmark interesting listing by adding them to a to-do list and share them via Facebook,\u00a0Twitter\u00a0and e-mail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.norai.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/traveller_AR-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3890\" title=\"traveller_AR\" src=\"https:\/\/cloud.norai.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/traveller_AR-1-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.norai.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/traveller_map-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3891\" title=\"traveller_map\" src=\"https:\/\/cloud.norai.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/traveller_map-1-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>What\u2019s most impressive about the apps is their Augmented Reality functionality (pictured above). Simply point your phone in a direction and it will bring up images of nearby attractions, which you can narrow down by type. You can also use GPS to pull up venue locations on a map.<\/p>\n<p>The apps contain a number of other neat little features as well, including a handful of guided audio tours and magazine articles, a travel journal, a\u00a0Flickr-integrated personal photo log, a timeline of the city\u2019s history and essential travel information about local customs, transportation and the location of tourist offices and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, Cond\u00e9 Nast Britain promises to update the apps\u2019 content every four months free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>The only major drawback are the prices, which are hard to justify when free apps like restaurant-finder\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/urbanspoon\/id284708449?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">Urbanspoon<\/a> also come with many similar features (although Urbanspoon\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2009\/10\/14\/urbanspoon-augmented-reality\/\">Augmented Reality<\/a> functionality is admittedly more basic and many users would rather read a review from a food editor than from the guy next door). In all fairness,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/zagat-to-go\/id296428490?mt=8#\" target=\"_blank\">Zagat\u2019s TO GO app<\/a> [iTunes link] also costs $9.99, but then it has a key feature Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveller\u2019s does not: the ability to make restaurant reservations. It also covers almost every major U.S. city in one app.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2010\/07\/08\/conde-nast-traveller-city-guide-apps\/\">mashable<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cond\u00e9 Nast Digital Britain recently unveiled a series of apps for the\u00a0iPhone and iPod touch, dubbed Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveller City Guides. There are four separate apps for Barcelona, New York, Paris and Rome priced at around $9.99 each. The\u00a0apps [iTunes link] are divided into six sections containing more than 500 searchable listings, complete with venue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7,89,32],"class_list":["post-3888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-iphone","tag-mashable","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}