Latitude Festival

Lots of good stuff but the schedule tries to update the times over a data connection. We arrived on Saturday with a schedule and reminders, then the times were zapped and because there was no reliable Vodafone signal none of it worked. Map just said “coming soon”. A suggestion for next year that the app doesn’t rely heavily on having data as I could send a text the whole time we were there! At least leave the provisional schedule in there so you’ve got some idea when things are happening. We ended up photographing someone else’s book.

Great app however it would be even better if you could see Friends whole lists for inspiration. This review was made before timetable made available so can’t comment on that.

Get this app. No more having to pay £10 for a piece of paper than hangs around your neck. No more having to tell strangers what times acts are playing because they’ve seen your schedule around your neck and they’re clever enough not to spend £10. You can just happily browse acts on your phone. You know... until signal goes and your phone runs out of battery.

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While full of information and having so much potential, this app is a bit glitchy. The times of events disappear periodically making it impossible to plan your schedule, the timeline/scheduling feature is hard to get up on screen (sometimes works, sometimes doesn't). Also the notifications sometimes work and sometimes don’t.

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The app seems to require an Internet connection in order to work. Mobile signals (Vodafone) at the Latitude site are dire or non-existent. Like every year. It looks like the devs never considered the real world use of the app: having a locally cached copy of the data should’ve been an obvious requirement. And the maps don’t scale. The best thing I can say is that the colours are nice.