TV4 Fakta Launches iPhone App

TV4 Fakta's new iPhone application, "Verkligheten berättar" (history speaks), can be downloaded free from Apple's App store.  The app combines the phone's GPS and map functions with an audio guide. A thousand different stories are available and they appear on the phone when the user passes by a specific place or street that is connected to a particular story. You can also listen to the stories anywhere of course.

"TV4 Fakta's documentaries have one thing in common: They are all based in reality," says Kajsa Stål, program manager at TV4 Fakta. "But this application takes it one step from the TV and puts the story in your cell phone."

Users can learn for example that Stureparken in Stockholm was originally a mass grave, that Göteborg was once called New Amsterdam and that Lenin visited Malmö in 1917. The thousand stories cover Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö currently. The plans are for the platform to expand. In the future, users will have the possibility to record their own stories, connected to their own experiences or historical events.