Want to know the nearest restaurant or transport facility available in your neighbourhood?
The
City Lens augmented reality browser on Nokia’s Lumia (Microsoft
Windows) and Belle (Symbian) devices are a guide to everyday needs. It
allows the user to explore options in food, hotel, shopping, landmarks,
transport and entertainment.
Available at Nokia Beta
Labs, the App has data from 196 countries, including India, and for
nearly 2,000 cities and towns in India. The user has to choose from the
options: food, hotel and landmarks, and point the device in the
direction of search. A list of the places available in the direction
comes on the screen with details of distance. When the specific place is
chosen, the address, photos, reviews, and directions to reach the place
are available. There are multiple sources for data collection in each
city for this feature, apart from the Nokia points of interest.
Another
feature available on Lumia phones is public transport. The feature is
available for 11 Indian cities now. Only the schedules of public
transport are available. In other countries, real-time update of the
transport service is available. For instance, when details of the
destination and the current location are entered, a point-to-point
information on public transport is available. It also provides different
modes of public transport and real-time update of the schedule.
(The correspondent was at Nokia’s design studio in Helsinki recently on invitation by the company).
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