A good overview of the applications available for the i-Phone to help your travel.
By Roger Yu, USA TODAY
Tech-savvy road warriors are enjoying a new era of handheld computing as more sophisticated smartphone software floods the market.
The iPhone, in particular, has amassed more than 900 applications targeting business or leisure travelers. Many applications are free, and others range from 99 cents to $19.99.
Unlike desktop software, iPhone applications are relatively simple tools that don’t require hours to learn. Most rely on the phone’s embedded GPS chip to tailor information to a traveler’s current location, such as spotting nearby Starbucks, Wi-Fi hot spot, police radar, restaurants and taxi companies. Others transform traditional travel tools — foreign language phrase books, city guidebooks, restaurant tip cheat sheets — and render them digitally.
We recently tried several of the most popular iPhone travel applications…….
via Add-on software apps make iPhone a great travel partner – USATODAY.com.
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