Is no news always good news???

Just really interested to see if anyone has any feedback on the new version of the app? Been out a few weeks, and although we've had some decent comments in person there's nothing official on the app store. If people are liking some of the new functionality don't be shy, on the other hand if there is still room for further improvement (always?!?) then please let us know and we'd be happy to try and incorporate it in version 1.2.

Otherwise we'll assume no news is good news....

Taxi NYC!

There's a really cool map visualisation of the density of cabs in New York at any given time of the week over at: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/04/02/nyregion/taxi-map.html .

Accompanying article is at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/nyregion/03icab.html?ref=nyregion

How did they get all this info? Apparently the city has fitted all its cabs with GPS equipment. Rather neat! Of course, someone has released an iPhone and Android application to take advantage of this and tell you where you're best off hailing a cab. It's called Cabsense.

Can we do this for London please TfL?

ES writes about London Taxi App

The Evening Standard has written a piece about the app.

It's clear that this article has already aroused some passions in Londoners - we're not about to wade into the debate on whether black cabs are expensive or not - we're just here to give you the cost of using one in advance of actually hailing it. Of course we're not saying we get it spot on every time - as someone mentioned things like the recent closure of 5 crossings of the Thames will have an impact on journey times. However, we think that for the vast majority of journeys we're within a few quid or so, and it can get even more accurate. A cabbie recently posted on Twitter that his journey with a meter showing £64.40 was just 30p out. We're obviously looking for feedback as well about how good (or bad) your fare estimates have been, with as much detail about the journey as possible.

Safe journeys to all

London Taxi Fare Calculator 1.0 released!

We're very pleased to announce that the London Taxi Fare Calculator is now on sale at the Apple Store, for 59p / 99 US cents. You can buy it on your iPhone through the app store or your PC through iTunes - http://itunes.apple.com/uk/app/londontaxi/id353591595#. If you're already following us on Twitter, you can get a free copy of the app by retweeting our release announcement tweet to your followers. Unfortunately, we can't do this for any new followers.

Free iPhone app

For a free copy of our iPhone app on the day it's released all you need to do is sign up to follow us on Twitter (click on the link to the right of this post), and when it's released RT (retweet) our launch tweet to your followers, and we'll send you a promotional code to download a free copy of the app.

You need to follow us as soon as possible, as the app could be released at any time, and as soon as it's available we'll do a launch tweet, and it will be too late to sign up then - don't let that happen to you!!

Cheers.

Update 9th Feb --------
We're very sorry, but what Apple don't tell you about promotional codes until you look deep into the support docs is that they're only available for the US store. So we can't give them out to our friends in the UK, but feel free to retweet us if you're in the US, and we'll send you over a code

Screenshots...

See above some screenshots of our upcoming app.

1. Shot one is the input screen where you can select or enter your start and end points, and the time and day you wish to take your journey.
2. Shot two shows the preset location categories that we have in the launch version.
3. Shot three is a list of DLR stations that are listed if you touch the DLR icon on screen two.
4. Shot four is the final results screen, showing the route, time for the journey, and the cost.

Just a little taster - the real deal is coming soon....