I just wanted to share my real world Windows Phone experience with you all. My friends and I put on a show where we jump some cars in a stunt show and jump a General Lee.
So, last weekend we were on our way to Columbus, OH for a show, when we pull over for gas and one of the cars had a thermostat housing blow, spewing hot coolant everywhere. As we were all standing around the disabled vehicle, the owner of the car says "we need to find an Autozone."
At this point out come the Androids and iPhones. I casually pull out my Titan, tap search, and type in Autozone. Within seconds, Local Scout gives me multiple locations. I tap on one 11 miles away from the rest stop. I asked would you like to call them? He said yes. I tapped on the phone number and the phone dialed and I handed him the phone. All of this happened within about 1 minute buy the way, and no one else had even come CLOSE to finding anything relavent at this point.
After finding out that another location had the part we needed, I tapped back and tapped on another map point and found the other Autozone. Another person said can we get directions to the other one? I looked up and said "already done, let's go." GPS got us to and from the Autozone and the truck stop with repair part in hand.
All told, what would have been a pretty serious situation between towing some 300 miles and having one of our crew stranded, in about an hour and 15 minutes the car was fixed and we were back on the road.
The entire experience was fluid and super fast. My iPhone and Android friends were all stunned and asking "How did you do that so fast"?
So, last weekend we were on our way to Columbus, OH for a show, when we pull over for gas and one of the cars had a thermostat housing blow, spewing hot coolant everywhere. As we were all standing around the disabled vehicle, the owner of the car says "we need to find an Autozone."
At this point out come the Androids and iPhones. I casually pull out my Titan, tap search, and type in Autozone. Within seconds, Local Scout gives me multiple locations. I tap on one 11 miles away from the rest stop. I asked would you like to call them? He said yes. I tapped on the phone number and the phone dialed and I handed him the phone. All of this happened within about 1 minute buy the way, and no one else had even come CLOSE to finding anything relavent at this point.
After finding out that another location had the part we needed, I tapped back and tapped on another map point and found the other Autozone. Another person said can we get directions to the other one? I looked up and said "already done, let's go." GPS got us to and from the Autozone and the truck stop with repair part in hand.
All told, what would have been a pretty serious situation between towing some 300 miles and having one of our crew stranded, in about an hour and 15 minutes the car was fixed and we were back on the road.
The entire experience was fluid and super fast. My iPhone and Android friends were all stunned and asking "How did you do that so fast"?