Showing posts with label 3GS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 3GS. Show all posts

Aug 30, 2009

Yelp has an Augmented Reality iPhone App for the iPhone 3Gs, "The Monocle"!

(Cross posted from tshwi)

Thanks to Dan Saffer for the link from the Read Write Web!

Here is my partial "reblog":

"Social review service Yelp has snuck the first Augmented Reality (AR) iPhone app specifically for the US into the iTunes App Store. The undisclosed new feature allows iPhone 3Gs owners to shake their phones three times to turn on a view called "the Monocle." This view uses the phone's GPS and compass to display markers for restaurants, bars and other nearby businesses on top of the camera's view...Blogger Robert Scoble discovered the hidden feature and posted about it on FriendFeed today. "

Video (in French, but easy to understand by the demonstration)


"Both GPS and a compass are used to determine location and direction being pointed at."

Screen Shots:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/yelpar2.jpg

http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/paris1.jpg

I want an iPhone. Verizon, can you hear me now?!

Jul 17, 2009

The new iPhone icons can speak: "Voiceover" makes it accessible to people with vision impairments - Via David Pogue

This is good news. According to David Pogue, in his Pogue's Posts column in the New York Times, "You’d never suspect that the iPhone 3GS, which has no physical keys at all, is one of the easiest smartphones in the world for a blind person to use. But now it’s true, thanks to VoiceOver."

Apple is mindful of people with disabilities. The virtual tour of the new 3GS has a closed-
captioned option.




The iPhone 3GS. I want one.