BT Android Phone Book App Now Available
BT has launched a free Android app to make the Phone Book available to mobile users.
Created by BT’s Directories division and developed by app agency, Grapple Mobile, this easy to use app helps you instantly find the business you are looking for, whether it is a local restaurant or a local tradesman.
The mobile phone application has already received unanimously positive feedback in the Android Market and currently has a five star rating.
To use the app, you simply type in an address or your current location and select the type of business you want. It enables you to plan your trip from start to finish, giving you full contact details, business descriptions, directions and customer reviews and ratings.
The new app has a wide range of features, allowing you to:
• Instantly find your location with GPS.
• Search for rated businesses from BT’s comprehensive business database.
• See search results displayed on a fully interactive map.
• See full walking and driving directions.
• View business web sites.
• Leave reviews and ratings for the businesses you have used and see ratings from other users.
• Contact businesses by e-mail and text, or call with a single click.
• Save contact details to your contact list.
BT says versions of the app for BlackBerry, Nokia and iPhone are in the pipeline and the app will also be pre-loaded onto BT Mobile’s HTC smartphones.
Nick Ratcliffe, general manager, Online Directories, said: “This is all about helping consumers to find the right local business. We’re giving customers on the move the information they need to make an informed choice about which local business to use, instantly. Putting all the detailed information at their fingertips, including ratings and reviews from other customers and maps and directions, is an invaluable tool for consumers.”
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
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Bryce Collins
I am so glad that Android phone Book app is out. It really helped my book sales. If there are any authors looking to submit there book to places I really recommend that you make sure it is Android compatible. One of the best ways to do this is to just upload your book to the store or for advance authors wanting to try something new that really worked for me is make a book app. making your own book app that is android compatible not only increased my sales but also my followers and facebook likes.