Discovering new things can often be a difficult task, but with a smartphone in hand and connected to the internet it is possible, in any place and in all circumstances, to find what you need at the moment. For example, you can be looking for new ways to read fresh current news, find places to eat, find parking, find the least busy road, find the right recipe and so on.
In this article we try 10 different types of free applications for iPhone and Android phones (Samsung, HTC, Nexus etc.) to discover new things and find what you need for every different need and at all times .
1) To find restaurants, the best applications are probably two:
- Italian restaurants (Android - iPhone) is an Italian app that allows you to find trattorias, pizzerias and restaurants of all kinds with a card and reviews of those who have been there.
You can check at any time which restaurant is closest, what type and what price it has.
- TripAdvisor (Android - iPhone) is the application that is based on the reviews of the many users who use TripAdvisor and finds on the map the best places to eat in every city in the world.
The normal Tripadvisor app is based on the internet connection.
If you travel to go to a particular place, for example, London, if you use an Android mobile phone or an iPhone or an iPad you can download the Tripadvisor City Guide application which acts as a guide to the city, including restaurants and which also works offline without internet connection.
This type of app is for every big city in the world and you can look at the list on the Cityguides web page.
The best app, however, is perhaps Yelp, the locals and restaurants par excellence.
2) Another great application for pc, iPhone and Android allows you to find restaurants based on what you want to eat.
Foodspotting, instead of displaying the names of places on the map, shows photos of the dishes.
With the application you can see photos of delicious dishes that other Foodspotting users have recently enjoyed and understand where is the closest place to eat.
3) Find out the best way to get to a place with Waze .
There are several applications that work as GPS navigators for Android smartphones and also iPhones and, among these, Waze is the cutest and most useful to find routes based on traffic conditions and current events.
Being a social road navigator, you can read the comments left by other users who have made the same road and then find out if there are blocks, broken roads, jobs, police checkpoints, traffic and so on.
A more detailed review has been dedicated to the free Waze GPS navigator for iPhone and Android .
4) Discover the events and things to do in the evening and at night in each city.
In all the major cities of the world, there is at least one party or party every night so you have to find it.
If you are in the USA, among many others you can install Saambaa which allows you to search for the best events in American cities.
If you are in Italy the best app to find things to do at night is 2Night which is a kind of Tripadvisor for night clubs with applications for Android and iPhone.
Also excellent is the app, only for Android, 2Nite which lists the events posted on Facebook divided by city.
5) The best applications to read the news of the day on a tablet or smartphone are at least two:
- Flipboard that turns the screen into a magazine that also takes news from your Twitter and Facebook account and makes it easy to discover new content divided into categories.
- Google Newsstand which is very similar and makes adding other sources of information very easy.
6) Find people around
Difficult to find applications to find known and unknown people around better than Facebook, except Tinder, for iPhone and Android, to meet new people that we like without paying for dating services.
Similar to Tinder, there are dating apps to know who we like near us, including OKCupid (Android - iPhone), which is also the best online dating site also in Italy
7) Finding out what song is today is really simple if you have a smartphone in your hand.
In fact, just install Shazam, start it, let it listen for a few seconds and as if by magic you will find the title and the author.
8) Find new songs to listen to based on the moment .
The best applications also available in Italy are 8Tracks which are based more or less on the same concept of finding songs based on the tastes of the listener, by genre or by type of artist.
9) Finding parking when you need it using your mobile phone is still a bit complicated.
However, you can have support with the Parcheggi.it application, for all smartphone models or with Trovaparparking for Android and with SocialParking for iPhone.
10) Finding the nearest petrol pump and with the lowest prices is also a very easy thing to do with the applications for iPhone, Android, Nokia, Windows Phone, Blackberry provided by the Italian site Prezzibenzina .
If you know other useful applications to find new things that saved your life on at least one occasion, leave a comment.
