Follow the Olympic Games from your smartphone or tablet
With just six days to start this global sporting event, there are plenty of options to stay informed of the meetings, results and acts that are going to be carried out. In yourexpertAPPS, as always, we present you with a set of applications to make a full monitoring and be aware of everything that happens in the Olympic Games in London 2012A selection of free apps for the major platforms, for you to choose fromwhich one suits your needs
We start with the official applications of these Olympics It's about of two tools created to inform the user of everything related to these games, both the route of the Olympic torch , such as the locations of the finals, London information and the results of the tests, among other options. The first one is the most complete It is called London 2012 Join in and it has a attractive design, displaying the colors of the striking logo of these games. In it we find a great amount of information As soon as we start it, the section What”™s On appears , a day-by-day calendar showing all events planned for that date.Just click on the desired one to know the place, time and description of the event. In addition, going down on the same screen we can know how to get there thanks to a marked route in Google MapsBut there's more.
It also has a section called Events that orders all the celebrations to find the category and act that interests the user the most. So we can quickly find a specific sport, performance or torch act Another section is Places , which shows a map of London where we can locate the current point of the torch , the place of competitions, places of first aid, restaurants, ATMs, etcAnd they have not forgotten the social options In the Buzz section we find a complete list of Facebook pages and Twitter accounts to follow everything that's happening. Finally we found a guide to find the events, visit the different corners of London, find where to buy tickets, etc This application is developed for Android devices, for iPhone andiPad, and can be downloaded completely free from Google Play and the AppStore The only negative point, and that may be key for many people, is that all its content is in English
The second official application is more simple and direct, and it is designed to house, exclusively, the sports informationIt is called London 2012 Results, and allows you to find out the competition calendar, search for when and where an appointment will be held of a specific sport, meet the athletes and, of course, see how the medal lists are completed through a simple application, based on tabsand with an attractive design. Again, this is a free tool and with contents in English you can get to via AppStore, Google Play and from Windows Phone Marketplace for those with a terminal Windows Phone 7
However, there are other options that, although unofficial, can keep us informed the same or better, especially if the contents are in Spanish An example is the application called London 2012Like the official application Results, this one is focused on the results of matches Dispenses of an overly pompous design, always showing on the screen the tabs and data of interest Thus, we can quickly know the medallas obtained by the different countries, the appointments according to the sport, the placeswhere they are disputed together with a brief review, related news and a calendar with each event. It highlights the possibility of creating a list of reminders with our favorite tests to avoid missing any. In this case, London 2012 is developed only for smartphones with operating system Android You can download free from Google Play
And for those who enjoy watching the Olympic Games live and live, you can always make use of applications that allow you to follow the prprogramming of Internet television to see each test anywhere. For iPhone and iPad we can use TV online , very easy to use and also includes provincial channels For Android , for its part, we have Free TV, where we can choose different channels from around the world.
Or, for users with more retailers, the entity of public broadcasting will deploy a large amount of media to be able to broadcast in high definition these Olympic Games through its application RTVE Thus, by simply selecting live television we can follow the tests of the moment through our tablets and mobile phones, whether they are Android, iPhone, iPad or Windows PhoneFree can also be downloaded from the respective app markets: Google Play, AppStore and Windows Phone Marketplace
