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mTrip Travel Guides have been released in the Apple AppStore, packing a number of features, from planning your itinerary to guiding you around the city and describing tourist attractions, restaurants, hotels and more.
That itinerary planning features seems especially interesting as it uses “advanced algorithm” to suggest the “most personalized trip to reflect the travelers interests” based on the trip dates, pace preference, opening hours, geographical locations of tourist attractions and traveler ratings.
In addition, there’s plenty of content included on tourist attractions, restaurants, shopping, nightlife and hotels; provided by Falk CIS (one of Europe’s leading travel content providers) and other travelers.
Navigation component is also built-in to guide you to selected points of interest either by public transportation or by foot. You can either look on a map or take the “augmented reality route.” Best of all, navigation works even while you’re offline — I guess mTrip apps come with some pre-loaded maps, which is very cool!
Finally, you can share your trip with friends by sending them virtual postcards via Facebook or email.
mTrip apps cover the following cities: London, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Barcelona, New York, San Francisco and Chicago; and each app is available in English, French, German and Spanish, while European destinations are also available in Italian. Each of the apps cost $5.99.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
