News: New York’s New Payphones – Free, and a Wifi Hotspot
The future is here, in NYC: New York’s futuristic, high-tech pay phones — which are embedded with touchscreen tablets — are finally going live on Thursday. The name “pay phone” doesn’t quite do it justice, of course. Yes, the city’s LinkNYC terminals will allow you to make domestic phone calls. But they’ll also let you surf the Web, pull up online maps and connect to city services like 311 and 911. And all of it will be free, thanks to built-in advertising. Powering these features is a series of Android tablets that are built into each of the LinkNYC terminals … Read more