Lonely Planet Shanghai City Guide 0.98

“Nobody covers the world like Lonely Planet.” - New York Post

The world’s leading travel publisher brings scintillating, supercharged Shanghai straight to your iPhone. The driving dynamo of China’s headlong leap into capitalist supremacy, ‘Song Hu’ is a vibrant, ever-changing city that literally never sleeps. From the futuristic heights of Pudong to the historic delights of the Bund and the French Concession, let Lonely Planet’s China-based authors shows you the way.

After 30 years and 90 million sales, we know how to produce essential guidebooks; now, the iPhone lets us take them further. How? Imagine you’ve pounded the length of Huaihai street, shopped yourself silly, and need somewhere to recharge. Just check your location on our intelligent maps, filter- or text-search for nearby restaurants, and you’ll be eating guiyu (steamed Mandarin fish) before you know it. All our famous content, all our 100s of independently-reviewed venues, all our know-how, now at your fingertips. Outstanding!

LONELY PLANET iPHONE CITY GUIDES

Imagine taking the worlds favourite guidebook and making the information interactive, personalised and fully searchable. Imagine dynamic maps that plot your exact location, guiding you through the quirky, the curious and the straight-up compulsory experiences recommended by our community of on-the-road authors and users. Now imagine that guidebook on your iPhone, with you wherever you travel. Well, imagine no more: the worlds favourite guidebook has just arrived on the worlds favourite phone.

• EASY TO USE - swipe to scroll through a full table of contents, dip into sections, and turn pages with a flick of your finger

• OFFLINE MAPS – there’s no need to go online to access our detailed street maps, fully retooled for the iPhone with location awareness, multi-touch controls, full-colour styling and six-level zoom

• TONS TO SEE AND DO – choose how to search through hundreds of geo-coded points-of-interest (POIs) – by proximity, category, preferences or favourites – then just tap to visit the website, or place a direct call

• TEXT SEARCH – whether you’re into ‘live music or ‘fine dining’, every article and POI in your guidebook is text-searchable

• LOCATION-BASED NAVIGATION – plot your location in real time on our interactive maps, exploring back streets and hidden treasures with no danger of losing your way

• WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS ... – if you need some inspiration, just thumb through images taken by our award-winning photographers

• PERSONALISATION – tailor your cityguide to your tastes by tagging the best POIs as ‘favourites’

• MONEY SAVING – forget roaming costs, our apps are designed for offline use, and only take up the room of an average album on your iPod

• MORE THAN 30 CITYGUIDES AVAILABLE – including London, New York, Melbourne, Dublin, Barcelona, Rome, Tokyo, Paris, San Francisco, Miami, Bangkok, Madrid, Prague, Seoul, Dubai, Berlin, Cape Town, Singapore and Mexico City, with more guides coming soon

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