Poynt goes everywhere with me Must-Have Travel Apps
Saturday, February 25, 2012 - 6:13pm
TechDadCentral has been on the road ... lots of miles and plenty of travel apps. Here are the four must-have apps that I cannot travel without.
Poynt
Frankly, I was skeptical when I heard about Poynt. It is positioned as a "location-based search engine" and when I found out that they were located in Calgary, Canada (not eactly known as a city full of software developers) I just had to find out more. I met with the Poynt team at CES 2012 and they walked me through the app. Since then, Poynt goes everywhere with me. When traveling, I use if for:
- Restaurant reservations
- Finding nearby and inexpensive gas
- Local deal finding (using your current location!)
But the best feature is its Poynt 360 augmented reality on the iPhone. It uses your built-in GPS, compass and camera to display search results as an overlay of your current live view. Recently, I was in the North Beach section of San Francsico looking for a good restautant within walking distance. I fired up Poynt, aimed my iPhone down the street and Poynt 360 displayed clickable links to all of the local eateries wthin view.
As a guy, asking directions means admitting defeat and Poynt has become my go-to app whenever I have to assert my control over all things geographic.
Poynt is available for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and WIndows Phone.
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