According to webopedia.com, mobile applications are “Internet applications that run on smartphones and other mobile devices”.
In fact such applications help to make it easier using the internet on portable devices.
Examples for mobile apps are gmail for mobile, Medscape Mobile a device for professionals or Shazam a program which recognizes the song playing in a bar.
It is unforeseeable that the range of mobile devices is high, but what are the limitations of those devices especially in the tourism sector?
IPhone, Andoid, Windows Mobile,… there is variety of different os systems.
Lonley Planet a travel guide is familiar with both backpackers and business men, women and men, kids and elderly people,…
However nowadays Lonleyplanet has an mobile app covering all three big mobile platforms; nokia, android and the Iphone.
To me lonleyplanet was always something physical, a book that I had in my backpack while traveling in foreign countries, but even for me things changed;
Dependent on availability of the Internet I tried to look for spots of interest on the Internet side of lonleyplanet.com, since there lonleyplanet is fully available as in contrast to the German side of lonelyplanet.
Though if I know that I would be somewhere where Internet isn’t for sure available, I go back to the classical book.
Today there is an increasing availability of mobile apps everywhere, hence lonleyplanet started to make their own apps, available for smart phones. Those apps are interrelated with the Internet but can be also be limited accessed offline;
The maps and restaurants are available, but recent news and the spot finder, which says where you are lacks of course out.
Conclusion:
Hence I have a phone which has barely a 256 color mode, I don’t even think about such applications now, but I also found out that it might be easier
to try to adapt to the app.
Till next week
Pius
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