I can only hope that my existing phone will support the new features…
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Teams Up with Verizon to Bring Mobile Magic to U.S. Parks
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Walt-Disney-Parks-Resorts-Teams/
I remember getting pretty excited about this kind of stuff a while back when the iPhone first came out – it just seemed like the perfect platform to really provide a one-of-a-kind, interactive guidebook for guests, and although there are some interactive maps available today, they’re pretty much limited to being simply digital maps that have some attraction & dining info embedded in them. Cool, but there’s only so much that can be done without Disney’s official buy-in.
That said, I think there’s a huge potential for Disney and Verizon to come up with something very cool here – think digital maps of the parks that not only show You Are Here via the phone’s GPS, but also the estimated wait times that you would normally find either on the park’s tip board or at the head of each attraction. Heck, if the rumored online dining and entertainment reservation system actually happens in the next few months, you could even make an ADR for a nearby table service restaurant all the while Soarin’ over California or fending off raiders in Pirates of the Caribbean – how cool of an iPhone commercial would that make?!