Google is integrating our everyday life with newer technology. Google launched a new Android app, "Field Trip" that acts like a local guide.
The new app will pop out information through a card with details about a location around you. It can even read it out if your headset is connected. The app can tell things from history of an area to the best available restaurant in the locale. Information will pop up on your device automatically.
The app also lets users share their memory via social networks or email. It has an information discovery engine that the user can tune by giving a thumbs up or down, this will help tune his field trips.
This app runs in the background on the Android devices. Categories are architecture, lifestyle, food and drink, movie locations, obscure places and special offers. The app draws resources from Thrillist, Food Network, Zagat and Eater.
This new app is for smartphones and not tablets.
It has two notification modes - "Feeling Lucky" that sends you notifications occasionally (default setting) or the "Explore" mode that will see lots of information being pushed on the mobile screen.
This app uses more battery power since it keeps popping new info waking the phone. It has a clean interface with sections for recent finds, nearby point and a map of the user's surroundings.
"The idea behind the app was to build something that would help people connect with the real, physical world around them," vice-president of product, John Hanke, told the New York Times.
PC World reviewed the app and found that it detects things only when at one location and not when the user is on the move. It also says it missed out on many restaurants and bars including an ice cream shop.
Currently "Field Trip" app provides information only for users in U.S. The site says "stay tuned" for international availability.
