Android for Dummies: Android: the best apps do (part 1)

Panorama Firm

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Let’s start with the most important for most users the features: easy reference and the number of companies in the same database. If the search would be uncomfortable, even and 100 million business in the database does not encourage anyone to use the application. For that matter, if the search engine would operate best in the world, but operowa?aby on the set of, say, less than 1000 companies scattered throughout the country. Panorama Firm fortunately has both a large database of products and services ( about 2.2 million companies ) and convenient search tool that you can support geolocation technologies and augmented reality. The usual practice is that after entering the desired service in the field of search engines available on the first screen after starting the app, the phone establishes our position posi?kuj?c a GPS transmitter, and the application itself using the data displays a list of companies providing searched our service beginning with those nearest.

If we change the phone to a horizontal position, mode also activates the augmented reality, of all the company found the image on the built-in phone camera. Exactly as in applications Layar and Wikitude.

In addition, a very interesting way to learn about the local market and what it offers is tab “Guides”, divided into categories: Restaurants, Recreation, Automotive, City At Night, Leisure Time, For Home, Computers / IT, Transport, Health and beauty, outside, Fashion and Shopping. If you select one of them, the application displays a list of the nearest places where the services are something (more or less) with the category chosen by us. Very good option for anyone who wants to feel for a moment like a real explorer.

Streetmobile

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Poland app, which is nothing revelatory. Imagine a combination of Google Places, Groupon and Foursquare’a are as comfortable with in growing base interface and the same places. Developers working with municipal offices, regional tourist organizations and the Polish Tourist Organisation, so that the application appears more and more sites to visit. In addition to the sights we’ll find dining, shopping, lodging, theater, etc. After the account is in Streetmobile (free), get access to a promotion organized by the owners of the area shaded in the application: In the restaurant you will pay less for dinner, ticket to the swimming pool will be cheaper so sometimes manage to save some cash. Base places available Streetmobile growing all the time, but it is still too small, so I can recommend it as the only app with which you can move into the unknown.

MapFactor: GPS Navigator

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Well, the two applications will help us to find themselves in foreign cities where you first get there. If you do not use the paid navigation apps, and Google Maps is too much strain on your Internet package, it’s … Fortunately, Android is a great system and a free navigation offline. Download a free MapFactora. Free maps from OSM – OpenStreetMap activate the GPS on your phone and that’s all. If free OSM maps turn out to be too inaccurate for you (maps are created by the users themselves), the application offers an option to purchase maps prepared by TomTom, but it costs a little longer, and if I would suggest to buy navigating, then I would recommend something else.

Yanosik

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And while we’re traveling around Poland, which recently suffering from a budget deficit, which is trying to patch up with ever smarter set speed cameras, this entry in the list can be a savior. Yanosik application is also completely free. Do not pay for the download, do not be bought at the subscription. The application will warn us against various types of events on the road as police checks and ITD, level crossings, road accidents, speed cameras. What’s more, tell us also about the unmarked vehicles traveling in the area, specifying the brand of car. Application Yanosik also has another function, which is to determine the route. The destination can be selected either by clicking on the map and enter the name of the village. Users have a choice of two types of maps: the traditional and the vector. The route is determined based on current traffic data. This application works only in Polish. Unfortunately require a permanent connection with the network.

iTaxi

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However, if you decide to make a trip without a car, did you get a strange city, it is two in the morning and the hotel is far away …

This application is the first Polish system or taxi passengers connecting with the taxi driver. Quoting the description of the same application: Please note that the application can cause permanent and irreversible reluctance to order a taxi in a tradycjny! With iTaxi not order a taxi in the dark – through the use of GPS geolocation see on the map all the taxis around you. Choose the closest, cheapest or the best – you decide. Encouraging? And what’s more, works. To order a taxi directly to iTaxi, the app will calculate the distance and route the exact time of waiting. The taxi driver will tell you that it is in place – and if you’re impatient (or inquisitive) – you can follow the detailed route directions taxi to you using the map on your smartphone.

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

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