New York: Wallpaper* City Guide app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Phaidon Press
First release : 21 Dec 2009
App size: 118.92 Mb
Wallpaper* City Guide apps present a succinct, tightly edited selection of the best a location has to offer, from iconic architecture to happening restaurants, bars and hotels, and the most enticing cultural spaces, art galleries and shops. Whether visiting Berlin, Milan, New York, Paris or London, or any of the dynamic destinations in the series, these unique guides represent an insider’s checklist for the design-savvy traveller.
Key features:
LOCATE: Find your bearings with a city panorama and essential landmarks
EXPLORE: Our pick of the best restaurants, galleries, architecture and shops
BROWSE: Get to know the key districts using our colour-coded system
NAVIGATE: Use the interactive map to quickly find your way around town
DISCOVER: Our insider reveals the city’s hidden venues and hippest haunts
Latest reviews of New York: Wallpaper* City Guide app for iPhone and iPad
While I generally love Wallpaper guides, this one is out of date. We showed up at RBC for a morning coffee only to find out that the store had been shut down. The app suggests that it has been updated in 2012. This is clearly not the case. Wallpaper will need to update its guides annually if it wishes to maintain its following.
This app, contrary to other wallpaper apps, has no localization option. In other words, it is pretty useless. The selection of spots is good, but could be refreshed: NYC is changing fast! Dont look for the new Whitney museum and the most recent cool places. They are not in the latest version.
I thought this app would be a little bit more detailed. - in every chapter, there are only 5-12 examples about places/restaurants/hotels in NYC - only the half of them had detailed descriptions... + favorable is the chapter NEIGHBOURHOODS - with the interesting quarters of NYC + I like the fact that you can read the adress of the special place and the app switches automatically to Google Maps to see how to get there
Dont waste your money on this app. There is nothing useful here. The only hotels listed cost $500+ and the few restaurants and boutiques are also expensive. No maps, no galleries, nothing. Even the skyline photo is just midtown with only seven obvious landmarks highlighted. I can get more information from a newspaper or the guy standing by the subway.
I just paid and downloaded the app, very disappointed in how little content there is, in a city like New York you only have 5 "landmarks"! I dont think a beautiful interface is enough to make up for lack of content. I would like to get a refund and delete the app if possible