Food & Wine mobile app/website??

[chris4disney]

Has anyone else had a problem getting that new F & W Festival mobile website to work on their phone? I get the website to come up on the home page, but nothing happens after that. I try clicking on different things and nothing... I have a blackberry curve 9330 if that matters.

Thanks!

 

[Sandy321]

havent heard anything about it -

reading the F&W sticky Horace Horsecollar posted a link to a review/blog on the soft opening
http://www.yesterland.com/wine2011.html

that included this information:

Yesterland reader Ed put the details from Disney’s official mobile website into an Excel file. He determined that there are 181 items—54 food items, 17 desserts, 40 wines, 39 beers, 20 cocktails, 5 sparkling wines, and 6 other alcoholic beverages (such as fruit wines and rice wines). If you bought one of everything, it would cost $861.90.

so that would be a useful app to have!

hope it works soon!

 

[chris4disney]

http://videos.parksmedia.disney.go.com/wdw/fwmobile/smart.html

Here's the web address from my phone... can anyone else get it to work past viewing the home page?

 

[Sandy321]

I cant -

I can put a cursor over the bottom choices, and I click but nothing happens

in the top right it says maps - I click, and nothing...

 

[jennylyn_b]

I've been using it for several days now and it works great for me on my Droid.

 

[Sandy321]

OK - I googled, came up with the QR code

used it on my iphone -

I get the pavilions to work now

 

[chris4disney]

I cant -

I can put a cursor over the bottom choices, and I click but nothing happens

in the top right it says maps - I click, and nothing...

That's what happens to me too. What kind of phone do you have?

I've been using it for several days now and it works great for me on my Droid.

My DH has a Droid... maybe it will work on his!

 

[Sandy321]

when I used the link you provided in your post - I couldnt get it to work,

then I googled and found the QR code, used that on my iphone

It worked fine on my iphone from the QR code -

 

[chris4disney]

when I used the link you provided in your post - I couldnt get it to work,

then I googled and found the QR code, used that on my iphone

It worked fine on my iphone from the QR code -

Oh really? Weird. I have the site up on my phone, but doesn't let me click on anything...

 

[ses1230]

HERE is some more info about the app.

 

[GoofyforDisney3]

Ok this maybe a stupid question but how does my phone know I'm scanning this icon thingy if I'm not in an ap? So confused.

 

[dunbarfamily]

Ok this maybe a stupid question but how does my phone know I'm scanning this icon thingy if I'm not in an ap? So confused.

I'm not very good at all of this, but I *think* you'll need to get a reader to scan it. I have "Red Laser" from the app store, its free. You open that up on your phone, then click the little lightening rod thingy at the bottom, then take a picture (aka scan) whatever you want. It then opens kind of like a website. I just did it with the icon from the first page and it works just fine on my iPhone4.

 

[dunbarfamily]

I'm not very good at all of this, but I *think* you'll need to get a reader to scan it. I have "Red Laser" from the app store, its free. You open that up on your phone, then click the little lightening rod thingy at the bottom, then take a picture (aka scan) whatever you want. It then opens kind of like a website. I just did it with the icon from the first page and it works just fine on my iPhone4.

Oops, not true. I thought it was working fine. It will let me click on the map, gives me a list of the pavilions, but will not show me the menus from each area. Ugh. Maybe I need to shut it down or something.

 

[Pugmalion1]

I accessed it through the QR code a couple of days ago and saved the bookmark to my desktop as an app icon. It has worked every time I've accessed it since, and seems to be a fairly detailed interface.

The problems, though, may mar the app's ability to be what I hoped it would on our upcoming trip. It seems bulky. There are too many graphics and too much background design. That's fine for a native app, but that kind of detail will drag down the speed of a web app. To compound that problem, each menu item loads in its own page. This means, to get to a listing for one item in Argentina, I have to wait for three pages to load, sometimes fully. And this is through a strong wi-fi connection! I can't imagine how slow it's going to be while using 3G in the parks.

If this app were native and available in the app store, it would probably be superb. As a web app, the GUI needs to be simplified and compacted. It's already kind of slow, and I imagine the issues everyone is having are related to latency issues on slower networks.

I hope Disney sees these problems and is actively working to repair them before the masses start using the app all at once. It's most likely going to crash the servers when several thousand people all request data from the site at once.

 

[vicki_c]

There is a $4.99 app on the App Store (Apple) for Food & Wine. It has some terrible reviews, but that seems to be because it has no booth menu pricing in it yet. The developers have a note saying they have submitted the pricing update and it should be out soon.

I will probably buy this before my trip. We bought one last year and it was fun to play around with. I'm not sure if it was the same developer or not - it looks different.

Anyway - it's called:
Epcot Food & Wine Festival Guide 2011
and the developer is:
McLean Mobile Solutions

 

[maciec]

I have a Droid Incredible and I used Google goggles to scan the qr. I started playing around with the app and it's working great for me.

 

[Horace Horsecollar]

Here's a link to the URL for the mobile website that should work:

http://videos.parksmedia.disney.go.com/wdw/fwmobile/feature.html

Disney may call it an app (an actual mobile application), but it's really a mobile website that relies a mobile browser (such as Safari for iPhone).

 

[redzinner]

The Disney weblink from the QR Code worked fine for me at home on my iphone. Once I got to the park on Saturday it was crap. Wouldn't even connect to the server. I think Disney's main goal is to see how many hits they get on the website because it was totally worthless in the park. At least via AT&T as a carrier. Much easier to look at the paper passport booklet or walk up to the menu board and take a look!