How Apple’s new iPhone 6 and iOS 8 can help you blend better with locals while you travel
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How Apple’s new iPhone 6
and iOS 8 can help you blend better with locals while you travel
According to Priceline’s
latest “Tourist Report Card” 91% of all tourists think they can blend
well with locals, however 94% of locals says that they can at least sometimes
spot a tourist just by looking at them.
Tourists reported
that they are guilty of the following tourists “clichĆ©s”:
- Asked a local for directions 63%
- Eaten at a chain franchise 54%
- Walked around with a map or guide book 48%
- Visibly carried a camera 38%
Well, the new iPhone 6 and
iOS 8 can help you blend better with locals and avoid some of the tourist
“clichĆ©s”! Here’s how:
Battery life – the new iPhone 6 comes with the all new A8
chip with better CPU and graphics performance and was designed to be power
efficient, early users had reported that the phone battery last for an entire
day under heavy use.
So no need to carry maps
and guide books anymore as it seems that you can trust your phone to do the
heavy lifting of map browsing, turn-by-turn navigation together with 3G and
Wi-Fi browsing without having to recharge throughout the day.
Bigger screen – the new models of the iPhone comes with a 4.7
inch screen for the iPhone 6, which can easily fit in your jacket or jeans, and
a 5.5 inch screen for the iPhone 6 Plus.
The bigger screen makes
map browsing and applications much more fun and useable so you won’t have to
walk around with folded printed materials and use the apps on your mobile to
find great place to eat instead of having to compromise on a chain franchise
restaurants.
Camera – the new camera features a new video encoder
and image signal processor which is built into the A8 chip, enabling:
- Better and faster autofocus which will save you time.
- Better face detection that will let you take much beautiful “selfie”.
- Enhanced noise reduction that makes it easier to shoot high quality photos and videos.
But even if you don’t
plan to purchase the new iPhone 6 you can still just upgrade to the new iOS 8
and enjoy lots of useful tools for capturing and editing your photos more
easily and intuitively and can create beautiful time-lapse videos which can
transfer any moment into amazingly beautiful memorable video.
So no need to walk
around with your camera visible, instead you may use your iPhone camera.
And
one last thing that will not help you blend better, but it is still pretty cool
to use while you’re traveling with iPhone 6 is the new native “Health”
application which lets you monitor your physical activity through the iPhone
motion sensors so that at the end of each day you will be able to access the
application dashboard and watch the distance you covered that day and the
number of calories you had burnt.
Oh,
and for all of you Apple fanboys, please note that lot of these new features
were already available for the competitor devices.
Keep
on traveling like a local!
Check
out this cool infographic from the Priceline Tourist Report:
Check
out on what’s new for iPhone on the Apple site:
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How do you transfer pics from iPhone camera roll to computer
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