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WorldMate’s most excellent travel app for BlackBerry and iPhone is finding its way to Android today. It covers all the bases when your leaving town, and includes travel alerts for flights, itinerary planning, flight status lookups, directions to local destinations through links to Google Maps, hotel booking, currency converters, weather forecasts, and a bunch of other stuff.There are some great tie-ins with LinkedIn and Outlook. The BlackBerry version even automatically pulls travel data from confirmation e-mails and punts them into your itinerary automatically.
As great as WorldMate is, the subscription fees may be a turn-off for casual travellers: $11.99 for one month, $99.95 for the year. Still, the free version of the app offers a lot of the same functions. If you’ve got a trip coming up, you can download WorldMate on many platforms at the links below, or hit up their home page for a closer look at features and download links to Symbian, Palm OS, or Windows Mobile apps.
Download WorldMate for Android (free, $11.99/month) [Market Link]
Download WorldMate for iPhone ($14.99) [iTunes Link]
Download WorldMate for BlackBerry (free, $11.99/month) [App World Link]
About The Author
Simon Sage
Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
