MoBiLe AppLicAtionS

In the past year, Google has been promoting its operating system (OS) for mobile phones, named Android. In recent months, have already launched several terminals with this OS, but there is still no official distribution in Latin America. But as part of the process of momentum to Android, Google has begun to promote a range of applications. One is Places Directory, aimed at tourists visiting other cities.

Places Directory to find relevant information to users from wherever they are. For example, if we are in New York, we can open this application, and select the bar. Quickly, we will receive information on bars that are in the area where we are. Thus, the form is responsible for defining relevant data from our geolocation. Of course, this takes advantage of the phone's GPS.

In addition to receiving information, we can see the average score they have given users. Such applications are not uncommon in the Apple iPhone platform, but there was nothing similar to Google's Android. And most likely begin to appear more and more options of this type for other operating systems such as Symbian (Nokia), Blackberry or Mobile OS.

Of course, this issue marks a trend that travelers will increasingly incorporate tools into their mobile phones to take advantage of their trips. Something that will surely lead to more developers to create tools for this growing market.

Another of this applications for example is Yeay. Yeay is the ultimate in terms of tourism using mobile phones, and therefore functions as a tour guide. These functions are:
- Translator, which has the potential to be translated into 5 languages (English, Spanish, French, German and Italian), so that tourists can communicate without any problem.
- Weather forecast for to know the weather will do in the next few days so we can plan some other activities.
- Events, which shows recent events, for entertainment, music, art, news ... so if you'rebored or do not know what to do, it will be because we want.
The most important option is the MAP module, which shows a street in which it appearsour current position. Also offers other options like:
- Public Transportation (in development)
- Record Route: Allows you to record and view custom routes
- Compass
- Go to ...: We can move from one place to another easily
- Nearby Places: With this option, starting from the position where we are, shows theRestaurants, Bars, Museums, Shops ... more nearby. When choosing one, we can call to reserve a table, see their web site showing the route or view comments about it.
- Augmented Reality (Beta)