Tag: smartphone

When I ask myself, “How did we manage to find our way on road trips/find a place to eat/find a hotel/find things to do, before everyone had a phone?” …

I wouldn’t yet include it in my list of favorite travel apps, but the see-it-once-and-you’re-done photo/video app Snapchat is an intriguing development in the world of digital travel communications. If you …

I am by no means a pro photographer, but I do enjoy trying to capture the essence of a place with the Instagram app. My point-and-shoot digital camera sits …

In a world where we are given so many choices and opportunities, there is something to be said for restrictions. I realized this during a moment of frustration with …

Full confession: I’m not beer-savvy like fellow Perceptive Travel blogger Brian Spencer, who can rattle off posts about craft beer in Singapore. I do know what I like, which is …

You can hold them in your hand. You can lay them out side by side and reorder them quickly. You can share one of them, some of them or all of …

A few decades ago, Mom or Pop took the occasional photo with their handy Kodak Instamatic camera, and only “serious” photographers carried around big lenses and heavy black cameras …

How many times have you thought while traveling, “If only I could see through walls, or have a bird’s eye view of all the cool things around me. I’m …

(Updated October 2020 with some travel apps and sites I discovered during the SXSW tech conference.) A phone these days does a lot more than make calls and send …

The last time I got into a vehicle with a GPS navigation system, it was a rental car with a group of people, and it about drove me batty …

A little over a year ago, the Gowalla and Foursquare apps on my phone led me to Houston’s House of Pies – a slice of their Bayou Goo pie, …

It has happened; I’ve joined the ranks of smartphone owners with a new Android mobile device. Now what do I do that is different while I travel? I pop …