London’s about to embark upon a massive experiment, where thousands of bikes are left about the city for users to pick up, and then hopefully not throw into the Thames in a drunken rage at 3.45am when the poppers start wearing off.
There are a few apps already out there offering to show you where the free cycle racks are located, but the pick of the bunch is London Cycle Hire. Because it looks nice. Here’s what’s on offer:
To help you locate and use the London cycle hire network.
Current features include:
- All TFL cycle hire locations
- Nearest cycle hire location
- Size of hire location (rack size)
- Directions to cycle hire location
- Time your journey (with cost estimate)
Which looks like this.
The data’s actually already freely available on the Transport for London web site, so presumably it’s rather easy for app-makers to port it all across to Android. Or you could just use your browser, but that’s not getting into the spirit of Android, is it?
The London Cycle Hire app costs 50p if you like the look of it.
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A slim and glamorous phone from Sony Ericsson, with the sharpest display around. It’s no powerhouse and the screen’s not the biggest out there, but we don’t mind. Because it’s cute.
LG’s first glasses-free 3D phone is a heavy, fat monster, with a clever 3D effect that works rather well. As a smartphone, though, it’s heavy and underwhelming.
A very shiny thing from Sony Ericsson, with a 3.7″ screen and Android 2.3.3 inside. But is it exciting enough to win fans in today’s spec-obsessed market? Can man live on one core alone?
INQ’s Android phone is an interesting “boutique” piece of hardware, packed with unique interface customisations that go far beyond the headline Facebook integration. We like it a lot.
Trilby
/ July 23, 2010Not the best app I’ve ever seen that provides information on “rack size”.