Weekend Watch: Nokia Parking, find and pay for a parking spot!
This is a video showing a proof of concept app (to demo the Nokia Location Data that can be licensed), Nokia Parking.
Here you can see live data of parking spots/car parks/parking garages as well as information on height restrictions. You can then pay the parking (and cancel) from the app.
Oh, the comments kill me :p
Source: Engadget
Thanks rishabh for the tip!
Category: Applications, Lumia, Nokia, Windows Phone
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This is good stuff, very useful. If Nokia just keep continuing like this, I think they will definately be the winner in long-term. They now offer things that are more competitive than ever before, now they just need to get a new motivated marketing-department and start a real “rolling thunder”. Then people will buy, they will buy a lot.
A lot of big car parks in the UK offer telephone payment in case you don’t have change for the meter. When I call the number printed on the meter their system recognises my mobile and knows my car, then I just tap in how long I want to stay. It’s a neat solution but I do like the look of this offering too, especially as you don’t have to enter in advance how long you want.
I wonder if the app is hooking into the same payment company, myRingGo.co.uk ?
Nokia should introduce Lumia 910 that offer less innovative but standard version that can compete with HTC WPX and ativ S especially in term of price. It is more like affordable LUmia 920 that comes with AMOLED without synaptics, puremotion HD+ but with MicroSD slot. Cause most of the comments that I read they’re not willing to pay extra for the “Innovations” and rather go for the competitors’ devices due to the OS, which they said WP8 kinda new so they don’t want to bet too much money on it.
Isn’t that the 820?
People said the ppi is too low when compare with HTC WPX and ativ S… Plus it doesn’t have gorilla glass.
So the 820 is EXACTLY what you are asking for, with the exception that you would like the screen to be higher resolution? You do realize that a compromise needs to be made somewhere in a phone’s specification to deliver it within a price point. For example, HTC sacrifice build quality, don’t they?
The CBD screen in the 820 does have an upside in the superior daylight readability.
How do you explain the WPCentral poll where 920 crushed all the opposition then? 80% of the people are in fact planning to pay extra for the Innovations.
Great app! Could really use this in trips to Boston, the city of torture driving and parking.
This should be implemented in maps, Once you arrive at a destination that has parking/or doesn’t. Maps opens Nokia Parking automatically to find the nearest parking to your destination. (Actually this will help a lot in crowded cities).
hahaha cool comments at engadget
Hey Janne, what location stuff is next????
Some pointers…
http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/28/nokia-navigation-business/