Over the course of my recent vacation I had a chance to test a number of Android applications.
Having been toying with a bunch of directory applications for a few months, I suddenly realized that my favorite in the category is Places Directory by Google.
The two usual vacation categories are food and entertainment. Armed with my five senses as well as printed materials available in my "home away from home", I started Places Directory to see how well its output mingles with the content of the tree-killing by-products.
Restaurants category rendered a solid list of places to go, some of them with a few reviews and/or ratings even. The reviews part gave Google Places a notch over the booklets.
As I was tethered to the house I stayed in as the only place with Internet access, the much hyped advantage of on-the-go search went awry right off the bat. On the bright side, I did have some level of Internet access and could use the application!
Activities section was the area where the booklets shined the glitter of victory making circles around the environment-friendly alternative. Even the fishing pier visible from a sub-orbital spacecraft was not listed in Places Directory.
Directory applications are one of the most promising and fast-growing segments of smartphone application market. At some point in time your phone will become the ultimate source of local information. Until then hold on to the glossy local guides.
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