Peeps! you don't have to worried anymore if your android phones or smartphones are not using a data connection to have a data roaming when you are outside of your country. This because your android phone can help you to give a travel guide without using a data connection. Interesting right! It may save your pocket money during travel from waste your money with data roaming.
Leave the paper maps, outdated
travel guides, and thick dictionaries at home when you go traveling — all you
need is an Android smartphone. You can do everything offline with features
built into Android and free apps.
Take advantage of these tricks
and you can travel without using your data connection, possibly saving
thousands of dollars on exorbitantly expensive roaming data fees without giving
up the convenience of your smartphone.
Offline Maps
Google Maps on Android has
offline support. This feature was previously considered experimental, but it’s
now stable. You can download map areas to your phone to view offline. When
you’re in the area, you can open Google Maps and use your smartphone’s GPS as
well as the saved maps to view where you are. You don’t need to stumble around
with a traditional paper map.
Google Maps doesn’t provide
offline navigation, which means you can’t ask it for directions — but you can
see where you are on the map. If you ask Google Maps for directions when you’re
on a Wi-Fi connection and then go offline, you can continue to follow the
directions and view your location on the map completely offline. Only searching
for directions requires a Wi-Fi connection.
To download maps for use
offline, open Google Maps, tap the Menu button, and select Make Available
Offline. Select a map region and tap Done — your phone will download it for use
offline.
You can manage your offline
maps from under My Places. Offline maps areas are listed under the Offline
category.
Offline Translation, Voice Recognition, and Speech
Google Translate now has
support for offline translation. You can download dictionaries and use the
Google Translate app to translate words and phrases between languages, just as
you would in a web browser.
Better still, Android
4.2 includes
offline speech-to-text and text-to-speech features. If you have a smartphone
running Android 4.2, you can also download the appropriate language support for
use offline. This will allow you to speak words into your phone and have them
translated in Google Translate. You can also use Google Translate to have your
smartphone speak a foreign-language word back to you — all offline.
To get started, download the
official Google
Translate app for
Android. Open it, tap the menu button, and select Offline Languages. Download
the languages you want to use offline. The Google Translate app will now work
normally for these languages, even when you’re offline.
On Android 4.2, you can install
offline voice support by opening your phone’s Settings screen, tapping Language
& input, and tapping the Settings button to the right of Google voice
typing.
Tap Download offline speech
recognition and download the languages you want to use offline. You can then
speak these languages into your phone or have them spoken back to you in all
apps, including the Google Translation app.
Travel Guides
In the age before the Internet,
people purchased travel guides made of paper. These travel guides contained
maps, lists of attractions, information about the local customs, and other such
information that would be useful to a traveler in the area. We don’t need such
travel guides anymore with the Internet — but what about when you’re offline?
Several different organizations
produce free travel guide apps for Android, but we foundTripAdvisor’s
apps were
the best. TripAdvisor offers city-specific travel guide apps for locations like
New York, Paris, Rome, London, and more. Install one of the apps and you’ll
have a variety of useful offline features, such as the ability to find
restaurants and attractions nearby, view offline reviews, and get pointed there
using your device’s GPS. You can also locate nearby transit stations, view
nearby ATMs, and even use an offline map — just in case Google Maps doesn’t
work right.
To use one of TripAdvisor’s
travel guides, first download it from Google Play. You must launch the app and
download its content before it will work offline.
Finding Wi-Fi Hotspots
Offline apps are great, but
you’ll probably want to get online occasionally. To do this, you’ll need to
find a Wi-Fi hotspot. Wi-Fi hotspots aren’t available everywhere, however —
finding them can sometimes be a challenge. JiWire’s
WiFi Finder is a
free app that can download a database of Wi-Fi hotspots to your phone. You can
then open the app, view how far away you are from these known Wi-Fi hotspots,
and make your way towards them.
After you’ve installed
the app, open it, tap the Menu button, and tap Download Database to
download its database of Wi-Fi hotspots to your device.
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