Let your feet do the walking.
The free app, which requires an iPhone 3GS, has been designed by Yell Labs and lets users ‘see’ local shops, offices, restaurants and other services through the camera viewer – even if they’re round the corner or in the next street.
If you touch one of the tagged boxes, information is displayed about that specific business such as address, phone number, opening hours and website.
Matthew Bottomley, director of new media product marketing at Yell, said: “This is an exciting new way to advertise local businesses... as people get used to using this kind of technology, having a prime ‘high street’ location could well become a lot less important.”
The app also lets users swish their finger to the right to see popular search results, or swipe to the left to set the distance they want to see, therefore limiting the information on the screen.
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