Why not get Charles Dickens on your mobile phone?
Well, to be more to precise why not download a Charles Dickens London walk for just 50p and follow it step by step around the streets that Dickens knew.
We’re trailing our new innovative London walks at the moment as per our exciting new concept of tours that you can follow and watch on your mobile phone.
Mark Ubsdell has been ploughing away at developing these mobile tours for more years than he’d care to think about. America has seen three changes of President since Mark first hit upon the idea of mobile tours that you could download onto your phone.
But, the technology was always a bit ifey. Download times could take for ever (America might see two changes of President before one 4 minute tour had downloaded!); internet connections were cumbersome, slow and jumpy. Stop start, stop start.
But times have changes. Mobile phone load times are now speedy. The coming of Broadband has made stop start films a thing of the past.
Now you can turn on surf, click and away you go. And thus the Eletric Tourist has come of age.
The concept is very simply yet, at the same time, surprisingly innovative.
You make your way to a London Underground Station, dowload a walk and, as if by magic, your very own personal guide pops up on your phone screen and takes you step by step around the streets of London following a particular theme such as Haunted London, Dickens London, or even The Beatles London.
Walks like this are a real advance. No longer do you have to schedule your day to fit in with the departure times of a particular company’s Guided Walks of London.
You can turn up at that underground Station at any time of the day or night (wow just think about it, you could do a ghost walk at 2am!!!), download the mobile guide and away you go.
Step by step directions will appear on your screen. A guide wil be standing alongside you (well at least on the screen of your phone) telling you what to look at and giving you some of its history. And, and this is the really cool bit, dramatic reconstructions can spirit you back to the actual ages that you are hearing about.
No other London walks can offer you this level of technological innovation. We have well and truly taken the Walking tour market into the 21st Century and left the competition behind. We’re not just streets ahead, we’re years ahead!
Tags: Charles Dickens, Electric Tourist, Haunted London, London walks, Mobile Phone Tours, Streets Ahead
