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Mobile Devices and Apps | Mobile O.S's => Smartphones | Wearables | Concepts | etc. => Topic started by: javajolt on August 10, 2009, 05:51:32 AM
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Summer vacation isn't just about escaping the office or beating the heat. It's about getting maximum enjoyment from your surroundings--and your trusty, hard-working iPhone can help. The iPhone apps we've collected here will enhance any summer getaway--and help you realize the full potential of your mobile device.
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Maximize Your Mobility With These 10 Great Summer Travel Apps
Some people seem to think that, like oil and water, smartphones and summer vacations simply don't mix. We beg to differ. Just because you employ your iPhone for work, that doesn't mean it can't play hard, too.
In fact, with the right iPhone applications--from the vast inventory available at Apple's App Store--you can make your summer travels more enjoyable and keep yourself better entertained and better informed. The trick is to know how to locate the diamonds scattered throughout the massive gravel pit of the App Store.
To assist you, we've selected ten iPhone applications that are perfect for vacationers on the move. From watching live baseball games on your iPhone to surrounding your ears with peaceful sounds in a hectic airport to uploading pictures to Flickr fast, you can do it all with these
MLB.com At Bat 2009
Creator: MLB.com
Price: $9.99
MLB.com At Bat 2009 is a must-have iPhone application for all baseball fanatics. Real-time dashboards for every Major League Baseball game played during the 2009 season, including live pitch counts, game stats, individual at-bat breakdowns, and "home and away audio" (broadcasts from the local markets of both the home team and the visiting teams) let you stay on top of what's happening. The app's crown jewel is its ability to display select games on your iPhone--live.
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Kindle
Creator: Amazon.com
Price: Free
The Amazon Kindle for iPhone lets iPhone and iPod Touch users purchase and read digital books, magazines, Web content and more, right on their Apple devices. If you haven't joined the e-reader craze yet, there's no better way than with Kindle for iPhone because it doesn't require a separate--and often expensive--reader. Users can buy and instantly download books from Amazon via iPhone and then sync the content over to the Kindle so that it's available almost immediately.
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Tweetie
Creator: Atebits LLC
Price: $2.99
One of the best things about social networking service Twitter is being able to share interesting experiences with all of your "followers" while you're on the move. Tweetie, one of the many Twitter apps for iPhone and iPod Touch, lets you do just that, offering all of the basic Twitter features plus such extras as yFrog and TwitPic image support and location sharing. But Tweetie's real strength is its clean and intuitive user interface.
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Fandango for iPhone
Creator: Fandango
Price: Free
Like its desktop counterpart, the free Fandango for iPhone app is a movie-goer's theater and ticketing companion. Fandango offers instant access to local movie and theater listings, trailers, user ratings, and coming attractions, along with a location-based theater-finder function and much more. Best of all, you can easily purchase tickets for shows by using a payment card.
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Ambiance
Creator: Matt Coneybeare
Price: $4.99
If you've ever needed to drown out some annoying racket on a plane or elsewhere--from bratty kids, say, or inebriated adults--Ambiance, dubbed an "environment enhancer," is the app for you. Simply pop in your earbuds, download one of Ambiance's 500+ soothing sounds, which range from thunderstorms to rolling rivers to French cafés to farm sounds, and let yourself drift away. You can set a timer, too, so that you don't drain battery life unduly.
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WorldMate Gold
Creator: WorldMate Inc.
Price: $24.99 (full version)/Free (lite version)
WorldMate Gold is an excellent all-around travel companion. It organizes and stores itineraries, including flight and airline information, hotel reservations, car rentals, and meeting locales. You can find hotels directly from WorldMate, convert foreign currencies, view world clocks and weather forecasts, and even get one-click access to maps and navigation apps, where available.
If you'd like to see how WorldMate performs before you commit to buying it, pick up the free lite version of the app.
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Where for iPhone
Creator: uLocate Communications Inc.
Price: Free
Where for iPhone is a full-featured local search application that uses your physical location to identify nearby restaurants (with Yelp reviews), local businesses (such as Starbucks), movie and theater information, gas stations, the lowest nearby gas prices, and much more. You can also keep tabs on friends who also use Were via the app's Buddy Beacon feature. And it integrates with the iPhone's native map apps, so you can find places of interest easily.
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Flickr Sendr
Creator: Concept Cache LCC
Price: Free
The Flickr Sendr app for iPhone and iPod Touch lets users of Yahoo's Flickr photo-sharing service snap and post pictures to the site while on the go. After logging into your Flickr account, simply choose whether to snap a new image or use one already stored on your phone; then upload the file, and you're ready to share.
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Free Wi-Fi
Creator: Youniversal Ideas
Price: Free
The Free Wi-Fi application doesn't really provide free Internet access, but it does offer the next best thing: a way to locate the nearest free Internet hotspot--which can be invaluable when you're traveling. The app finds your location based on GPS (if permitted to do so) or by zip code, but you can instead search for Wi-Fi by city, if you prefer. And you can tap any search result for location information and directions via the native iPhone/iPod Maps app. (Note: This app only works in the United States.)
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Parachute Panic
Creator: FDG Entertainment
Price: $0.99
Not actually skydiving this summer? Check out a simple strategy game for the iPhone, Parachute Panic, which challenges players to ensure that parachuting stick figures land safely on passing ships instead of in the ocean (where, tragically, they become shark food). You simply guide falling parachutists with a finger or two, open up their chutes when necessary, and avoid or destroy obstacles. The goal is to save as many stick figures as possible, racking up points in the mix.
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