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A renewed call for a PDA-Compat ible Restaurant search
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07-26-2009 08:06 PM
I recently succumbed to The Blackberry partly because I thought I could have information about Upromise partner restaurants in the palm of my hand whilst wandering the city streets in search of a spot for lunch or dinner with friends. But alas, The Blackberry cannot compute the Restaurant search page in all its widgety (java-scripty? Flash-Gordony?) glory. (And no, even if I had known about this setback before I got the 'berry, I was not about to spend far, far beyond my means to get an iphone and switch my service just because it can read native websites, thank you very much.)
Please, for those (apparently million, nay, LEGION) of us on Blackberries (and other non-native-website-reading PDAs), design a mobile version of the restaurant search, not to mention the rest of the Upromise website. We cannot all hope to be able to hop onto the internet at a 'home' or 'hotel' computer before going out for a meal, especially when most of our friends are finnicky, last-minute-decider-type people, or we are cheap and not staying at a hotel with wifi, or we happen to notice a cute restaurant down the block and want to know, right then and there, whether it offers rewards.
Methinks this is not too much to ask? Who's with me?
(Also: In response to the poster who suggested making custom maps of partner restaurants on Google maps or something similar, and accessing it via the browser: that doesn't help me when I find myself in a new neighborhood in a city like new york that has hundreds of participating locations. Or the situation like the last two months when I was on a road-trip through most of the Eastern US, and never did know where we'd be stopping for a meal or get hungry on the road. It is a genius workaround if you want to map the neighborhood where you work or something small, to be sure, but what about spur-of-the-moment discoveries?)
