Phone and smartphone tours

Integrating personal devices into your offer
Applications for smartphones (app-ready internet phones) can deepen the relationship with your core audience, and build links to new audiences entirely. Onsite, apps can offer an innovative and exciting way to present content, which can be re-used on rental players.


The opportunity, and the need
Smartphone sales are booming; and they are the portable communication and entertainment gateway for millions worldwide. Cultural apps for iPhone, BlackBerry, Nokia and Android phones can support your brand and extend your geographical and socio-economic reach beyond your regular visitors. With care, apps can provide additional sources of revenue, both directly, and by offering relevant ‘in-app’ purchases. Visitors who bring an app-based tour with them when they visit reduce your need to provide players onsite, and iPod Touch devices onsite may help contain content costs as well.

imagineear can help you reach these goals in several ways.  We offer:

• Full smartphone programme support for over 40 mobile devices in over 30 languages

• iPod Touch rental for onsite support of iPhone apps

• iPod Touch recharging and uploading onsite via the imagineear smartCharger™

• Easy phone-to-player conversion if you prefer to run a mediaPacker™ installation onsite

Partnership with Tristan Interactive
Programming for the wide variety of smartphone devices is a specialised activity, and imagineear has chosen leading provider, Tristan Interactive, as our platform partner.  We combine Tristan’s powerful content builder back-end and years of mobile development experience with imagineear’s deep understanding of cultural interpretation to create outstanding smartphone interpretation. Our best-in-class solutions allow you to:

• Offer audio, video, interactive maps, text, thumbnail and hi-res images

• Keep your visitors up-to-date with a calendar of events and news feeds

• Provide multiple ways to access content: by entering a label number, making a selection directly from a trail or map, scanning a barcode, searching full-text, building favourites and recommendations lists

• Stay in touch after the tour, via on-app notifiers (the red ‘update’ buttons)

• Promote virally via visitors’ own twitter, facebook and e-mail accounts

• Sell on additional goods and services, like posters or additional content

• Geo-locate points of interest on GPS supported maps
  

Talk to us if you are considering mobile/cell phone tours, or a smartphone platform as part of your interpretation solution. We will be happy to offer expert advice, and build tours suited specifically to your needs.