Apple Features Hostels (Hostelworld App) in the Latest iPhone Ad
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Apple’s Latest iPhone Ad: Backpacker
http://www.cultofmac.com/apples-latest-iphone-ad-backpacker/39136
The “Backpacker” ad follows a young traveler in Barcelona as he uses his iPhone 3GS to find hostels with the free Hostelworld.com application, email pictures to his mom and use the $24.99 Jibbigo app to translate for him on the fly.
Not covered in the commercial? The kidney the narrator had to sell to afford the AT&T 3G international roaming charges he incurred when he returned from his trip.
Here's the ad:
Related: read more about the Hostelworld iPhone App, Hostelworld iPhone site, Hostel Hero for iPhone, and Backpack Online for iPhone.
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14 years
And he's using the Jibbigo app to translate from English to Spanish in a city where Catalan is the predominant language.
14 years
And he's using the Jibbigo app to translate from English to Spanish in a city where Catalan is the predominant language.
Weird -- it looks like the blog post says Barcelona but the hostal seems to be in Madrid...
Here's a comment from the blog post:
[INDENT]"The Hostel is in MADRID, Capital and largest city of Spain.
The photos are at Barcelona"[/INDENT]
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