The 8 Finest iPhone Apps for Travelers
If you love your iPhone and you love traveling, this article will help you bring together your passions. As you may know, there are millions of apps available at the Apple iStore, covering pretty much every function you could hope for. Well, the following 8 applications are arguably the most useful for users who travel around regularly. Let’s see:
IAmHere
If you’re a restless traveler who keeps moving around and you’d like an easy way to keep your friends up-to-date regarding your present whereabouts, this is it! IAmHere fetches your current location via GPS and sends a Google Map links to your specified contacts, at the click of a button.
HearPlanet
How would you like to have your own personal, pocket-sized tour guide? With this ingenious little app, now you can! It uses the GPS chip to detect touristic attractions in your surroundings, then “reads” out loud the description available from the Wikipedia. Simple, efficient and quite useful too!
Where
When looking for a place to eat or local accommodation, this application can be tremendously useful. You can use it to check the commercial and touristic landmarks in your surroundings, complete with user submitted reviews and ratings. This can be immensely useful when you’re on a rush or just plain too tired to walk around looking for what you want.
Lonely Planet Phrasebook
If you keep getting lost in translation and experience the challenge of communication through a language you’re unfamiliar with, this app will work some real magic. What sets this electronic phrasebook apart from the conventional alternatives are its text-to-speech capabilities; meaning you can speak a phrase into your phone, and it will digitally translate the sentence and “speak” back in the language you choose. Useful beyond words, this is a must have!
goPostal
Sending postcards has never been easier! With this application, you can take a picture with your iPhone and have it printed in an actual postcard, and sent to any address in your contacts. The cost is just over a buck per postcard, and it will usually get delivered in less than 24 hours, which is really impressive!
Next Flight
As suggested by the name, the purpose of this app is helping you keep track of and manage your flights. With a huge database comprising nearly 5 thousand worldwide airports, this application will keep you up date regarding your next flight, including information on eventual delays or early departures.
Wi-Fi Finder
Finding Internet hotspots while visiting a strange land can be a daunting experience, particularly in regions where you can’t speak the local dialect. If that’s something you’re concerned about, this app comes to the rescue with a gigantic database comprised of over 250,000 hotspots across nearly 150 countries. Get it now and never again worry about finding wireless Internet, anywhere.
SitorSquat
If you’ve traveled to the Eastern countries, you have probably went through the shock of realizing how most toilets in that area of the world are essentially a hole in the ground. Fortunately, there are applications such as this one to make things easier. Simply put, it’s a database of nearby restrooms, including the availability of a conventional toilet where you can actually sit on.
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