Finally. Woices application for Android OS devices is here. Well, in the market. Search for woices and install it. Won't regret! The Woices Android team has been working 25 hours per day for the last two months to release the app. So congrats to all of them!
Thanks also to the Woices iPhone team for being so cocky and make the android guys show their best :-)
Thanks also to Google for giving us 3 Nexus1 for free. That definitely increased the woices Android fan base :-)
BTW, this is not over. New features are being added to both the iPhone and Android Woices apps right now. And the Blackberry woices team has been founded, so expect a new baby soon! Stay tunned!
We have some naming news today. Woices Infospots, our premium service for cities, museums, natural parks or any organization willing to offer an exclusive, custom, audioguide service to their visitors is gone. For good. Well, not exactly. Actually, we have renamed it. We are going to call them Sponsored guides. The new name does more justice to what it is and, in addition, its easier to remember! :-) Sponsored guides are the easier way for an organization to deliver location based audioguide services to their visitors. The audio is sent to the visitors mobile phone, so there is no need of buying and deploying any hardware or infrastructure. It's dead simpple. Sponsored guides curators can create and manage all the content through the web (as easy as publishing a blog) while woices technology delivers it to any mobile phone or smartphone. Learn more about sponsored guides.
This week Apple has approved a major update of the woices application for the iPhone and (for the first time) also for the iPod touch.
Besides some small changes and minor fixes, the major new features that this new version include are:
1. Sponsored guides (infospots) now have a more prominent appearance in the application and when users enter into one of them, a custom, branded mini-application is launched, exclusively for the sponsored guide, giving them more personality and stronger presence. Inside the sponsored guide application the user can see all its information, walks and listen to all their echoes. Finally users can quit the sponsored guide application and go back to the main woices application.
2. Users can follow sponsored guides walks, and navigate through all it echoes by taping on the lateral arrows to advance or go back.
3. The echo page has been redesigned giving more space for its photo and embedding the audio player at the bottom.
4. A new GPS notification area showing your current detected location has been added to the explore list page. Feedback = usability!
5. The application now is also compatible with the iPod touch. A request that was made by several organisations (most of the museum) since they'd love to have a stack of them with woices already loaded and lend them to those visitors who do not have a mobile phone.
Do you want to see how an InfoSpot looks like in our iPhone?
When your Infospot visitors launch the iPhone application, they see a list of all your echoes (audio records) and walks ordered by proximity. Then, they can follow a walk by going to every echo location and play them in succession. Or, if they feel like, they can simply wander around and play the echoes as they find them. Visitors also get access to photos and descriptions in addition to the audio content.
For the last few weeks we have been working hard to improve the information available in our site, and one of the first steps has been the creation of an InfoSpot (woices premium service) tour.
In 5 minutes you can see what an InfoSpot is, where you can use, how easy it is to create one and how cheap it is. Now you can sign up a trial version of the premium service and play with it for 30 days to see how it works and how easy it is to create its content and make it available to your visitors through their mobile phones. Check http://woices.com/infospots/signup for more info.
The city of Valls has recently launched its first InfoSpot including an interesting walk within the city old quarter. Last saturday, the Mayor and several authorities opened the tour. If you happen to be at Valls, do not miss it:
Finally, after several months of development, Apple has published the woices application at it Application Store making it available to all iPhone users worldwide. We offer the application for free so don't waste your time and go for it! Any feedback will be welcomed. Get it here!
Woices for iPhone makes it easy to access WOICES FREE AUDIOGUIDES SERVICES. Woices is a FREE service for creating, sharing and listening to audioguides made by people for the people. Nobody knows better this place you are going to than the people who lives or have been there before. Listen to them for some real information, experiences or recommendations! Woices brings them to you right now and on the spot by using the iPhone GPS feature.
Use your iPhone to detect which audio clips (echoes) other users have left around you and enjoy that audio information that will make your visit a more interesting experience. Woices will detect your current position and show the most interesting echoes in your neigbourhood.
Moreover, you can also use Woices for iPhone to create and upload your own content. Record your own echoes on the spot! A built in recorder allows you to create new geolocalized echoes, post them to your woices.com account and share them with the rest of the world.
Help to make the world a more interesting place and enjoy what people have to say about where they live or the places they've been!
With Woices for the iPhone you can:
Explore and detect audio guides (echoes) around your current position.
Search for any echo with our search form.
Retrieve any particular echo by placing its e-code in the search form.
Browse your favorite echoes.
Add any echo to your favorites list.
Record and upload your own echoes.
Take a photo and attach it to your own echoes before uploading them.
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