(Some of) The Best Travel Apps for your iPhone…
Last update: 31st July 2009
The Apple website travel apps section lists over 270 Web apps for the traveler -you can easily find all kinds of travel-related information and download to your iPhone
Check flight times, travel guides, make wireless calls, translate and find currency converters – just open the web app on your iPhone or iPod touch, tap the plus sign, and then tap “Add to Home screen.†A Web Clip will be added to your Home screen automatically for easy, one-tap access. You have up to nine Home screen pages for all your Web Clips and you can organize them however you like
TripIt A travel organizer available online or on your iPhone. F forward travel purchase confirmations via email and TripIt will build a master itinerary of your trip you can then print, share, and access your itinerary from anywhere
Yahoo! Maps for iPhone & iPod Touch
Rough Guide – download these travel guides content onto your iPod
Flight Stats keep track of flights, airport security, weather and keep up to date with flight delays or cancellations
Fizz Weather
Fizz Weather provides detailed weather information for over 58,000 cities worldwide – find your favorite cities in seconds or use the iPhone’s built in GPS to find the nearest weather reporting station to your exact location
TSAwait check the average wait time . If you’re early and the lines are short, you may make an earlier flight
Boingo Mobile connects you to thousands of hotspots around the globe
Truphone allows you to make cheap international phone calls over Wi-Fi – save money when you use it via WiFi or via their recently updated Truphone Anywhere service that provides call through service at really low rates per minute which for international calls is huge savings
Tube Status For visitors to London who use the tube London Tube routing apps
Orbitz foriPhone Access your Orbitz itineraries, check travel conditions, and find available hotels in top cities
iTranslator – Translate from and into 5 different languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish
Schmap Visit Schmap on your iPhone, iPod touch to browse the full range of Schmap City Guides, integrated dynamically with photos, maps and reviews
Travelocity – lets you check flight schedules, gate numbers, security wait times and — if you booked through Travelocity — your itineraryoffers reviews from newspapers, blogs and fellow users
Lonely Planet - phrasebook apps in 10 languages including Czech, Italian and Vietnamese
London Travel Guide for iPhone
Kayak for iPhone Use Kayak for changing your flight at the airport, or finding a hotel at the last minute.You can book online with the airline or hotel site of your choice, or you can simply press a button and your iPhone will call
One of my favorite travel apps is ‘GPS Log’, I use it to record all the places I visit as a diary, and also so I can find them again easily (particularly useful I have found when going out in Osaka – I can see where I went the night before, even if my memory is a little fuzzy).