AnyStop: BART

Android Apps - Daily video reviews by AndroidApps.com - Posted Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:36:04 UTC +00:00

Get around any city from New York City to San Francisco to London with these handy Android local transportation apps, which let you navigate subways, trains, and buses like a pro. No more craning your neck in a crowded subway trying to see the name of the stop, wondering when the bus will come, or standing on a rainy street corner trying in vain to hail a taxi. Whether you are commuting to work or sightseeing in a new city, make the journey from point A to point B simple. These are the public transit apps most listed and reviewed on AndroidApps.com by those in the know -- city residents and visitors. Reviewed by diablolita: “This app is amazing in that it has subway maps for almost every city with a subway in the world - in English. What it lacks in the occasional lack of accuracy (that's a lot of maps Read More

The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia - Posted Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:00:00 UTC +00:00

In some cities, pulling out a transit map is an open invite to solicitations from panhandlers, swindlers and car services. But you can avoid such nuisances if you own a smartphone. Then you only have to avoid being ripped off by your cell carrier, or an incompetent software developer. There are many hundreds of mobile apps that help you navigate transit systems around the world. They are almost too easy to create — because many municipalities distribute their transit information widely and freely — and they can be profitable, because users think nothing of spending a buck on one. But these apps can also be a headache for developers to manage over the long term, because transit service can change frequently in any given city. And if you, as a consumer, download an app that has no legs, you pay dearly in wasted time or worse, a trip to the wrong Read More