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In my experience full-fledged country guides from Lonely Planet are more thorough, detailed and informative. In the area of region-specific (say, Provence in Fr
by mynegation 14y ago
In my experience full-fledged country guides from Lonely Planet are more thorough, detailed and informative. In the area of region-specific (say, Provence in France) and mini-pocket guides with pocket maps Frommer has much more presence and their guides are very good.
I am as avid user of smartphones and tablets as any other HN user, but there are many places in the world where you certainly do not want to pull gadgets out of the bag or pocket.
- stcredzero 14y ago> I am as avid user of smartphones and tablets as any other HN user, but there are many places in the world where you certainly do not want to pull gadgets out of the bag or pocket. Single-purpose travel PDAs for rent in such parts of the world might be of some use. Have them optimized for the travel guide function, and make them hard to jailbreak and susceptible to bricking when jailbreaking. It may be possible to make them unattractive to steal. (You can steal them, but no one particularly wants to buy them.)
- Avshalom 14y agoor use a book.
- stcredzero 14y agoThere's functionality available on a tablet that's not there in a book. Much more timely updates to local events, for one thing. Google Maps for transit information, possibly dispatch of taxis in parts of the world that haven't thought of regulating that yet. Considering the number of people who bought netbooks for the purpose of having a "disposable" computing device for travel, there may be a rental market for a travel tablet.