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"Cond\u00E9\u00A0Nast Traveler has released four city guide iPhone apps for New York, Rome, Barcelona and Paris. Each app is priced at $9.99.\r\n\r\nWhile the App Store has Rome being released today, Barcelona July 2 and the New York and Paris apps in June, none of the apps have reviews yet which is leading us to believe that they were all just released publicly into the App Store (MediaWeek in the UK also says that Cond\u00E9 Nast is &amp;quot;launching&amp;quot; them this Tuesday, so that seems to confirm this idea). From what we've gathered, these four apps are only the first of many to come from Traveler, which of course makes sense.\r\n\r\nAlthough expensive, the apps do look well done from the App Store previews. This shouldn't be too surprising -\u00A0Cond\u00E9\u00A0Nast also owns Wired and produced the very popular Wired iPad app (maybe they used the same developers?). Here are the main features listed in the app descriptions (same features for all four city guides):\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\t500+ fully searchable listings\r\n\tAugmented reality functionality and GPS so that you can find what you need wherever you are at the touch of a button\r\n\tWord of mouth, where passionate authorities on each city share their personal favourites\r\n\tFilters so you can sort by mood, style,\u00A0neighborhood, cuisine...\r\n\tAll content and zoomable map is available off-line\r\n\tBespoke \u2018to do\u2019 list and journal, enabling planning ahead of arrival\r\n\tSharing functionalities via email, facebook, twitter or flickr\r\n\tAudio Tours guiding you to our Editors\u2019 favourite places\r\n\tSelection of Cond\u00E9 Nast Traveller\u2019s most recently published articles on the chosen city\r\n\tTimeline summarising key moments in history for the city\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe most exciting features of these apps are certainly the audio tours and the augmented reality features, which you can see a preview of in the Barcelona app below. Also, the maps look really nice (the one below is for the Rome app) and the &amp;quot;word of mouth&amp;quot; feature could also be very interesting. While $10 for an iPhone app that covers just one city may seem a bit steep, Cond\u00E9 Nast isn't exactly focused on the budget traveler, so we suspect that if this app works as advertised, that it may do quite well with the jet setting crowd at least.\r\n\r\n(Note: the apps are being released by Cond\u00E9 Nast's UK digital division).\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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