Foursquare now allows you to find more specific places
For a few months now, the social network most useful for discovering the environment of the user, Foursquare, is committed to enhancing her skills as a search engine Y is that your team discovered that the smartphone app is often used to find interesting places near the user's current position, whether they are establishments, restaurants or bars where you can have a drink, or places to visit.That is why they decided to enhance this feature by including it in a redesign directly on the main screen Now a new updatearrives to give a twist and to further customize these place searches
This is an update for both the Android platform and iOS and, although they do not share version number (2013.05.22 and 6.2, respectively) they do share what's new These are translated into a new search filter screen that comes directly from the mobile web version of Foursquare, so the users most related to this social network may have already tried it. With them it is possible to carry out a searchthat is much more specific, including concepts social andeconomical to find the desired site in just a couple of touches.
Thus, you just have to start a search from the main screen through the top bar, which previously was done from the tab Explore Here appears a new button called Filter, which brings up a screen with all these Actions. It is a set of concepts that can be activated together to find a much more specific place. Specifically, it is possible to search for a cafeteria, for example, where the user has already checked-in or not, where the contacts and friends of the user have already registered their visit, where discounts or Specials are offered, located in opening hours right now or saved in one of the to do lists
This makes it extremely easy to find a particular place where you can't remember the name or address. But there is still another filter in this new update. This is the price range of the local that is being searched, being able to specify between four different price ranges from places expensive to cheap In this way, the user can further narrow down a search, further enhancing the possibilities to explore the environment, even if it is supported by in the places visited by other users or wanting to find a place with offers to eat and that , also, let cheap, for example.
In short, a function very interesting both for users more like-minded like the most novices, who now do not have to search one by one for the places that appear on the map to find out what they offer.Both versions for Foursquare, both the update for Android and devices iOS, now available for full download free via Google Play and App Store, respectively. It is curious that despite finding the entire application in Spanish, including menus and buttons, this new filter screenis still in English, something that will surely be corrected soon.
