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Instagram for Android Now on Final Approach

March 26, 2012 at 5:55 PM | by | Comments (0)

For all we talk about the awesomeness of Instagram (check out our photos under "Jaunted"), there is one major flaw: it's only available to those on iPhone or iPad. Until now-ish. Instagram is coming to Android devices, and soon.

Digitaltrends.com has the news that Beta sign-up has opened for the Instagram Android app

What this means is more than a huge growth in the number of users of Instagram (around 27 million now), but also much more travel photos from more places around the world. Plus! Plus naturally this will include enhanced features, like what we're really hoping for: multiple account management and the ability to save favorites into categories. Imagine having a "to visit" folder. WANT.

So, Android users—sign up for the beta here, and then when it comes to be, check us out at Jaunted, HotelChatter and VegasChatter. See you there!

[Photo: Jaunted on Instagram]

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Scared to Use a Mobile Boarding Pass? Don't Be.

March 5, 2012 at 2:15 PM | by | Comments (0)

We need to have a talk about mobile boarding passes. Are you using them? Most major airlines are these days, including (but not limited to) Delta, United, American, Alaska, SAS, British Airways, Lufthansa, Cathay Pacific and Qantas.

If you're just a little bit uncomfortable with getting through and airport and onto a plane using only your phone, read on. If you're totally cool with mobile boarding passes, awesome. Though we're seeing increasing use of mobile boarding passes—just look around next time you're waiting in a security line to have your ID checked, and note how many others have their phones ready to scan—there is still much hesitation and "I'll just wait 'til the airport."

So, we'll walk you through the five steps of checking in, this time on a real Delta flight. Their app is ace.

{Above} Step 1: Make sure you have your airline's app downloaded. Sign in. This is the welcome screen, displaying the indication that it's time to check in for one flight.
Step 2: Press "Check In," doublecheck the details of your flights on the next screen, and hit "Check In Now."

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Getting the Food to Come to You at Chicago-O'Hare Airport

November 30, 2011 at 9:27 AM | by | Comments (0)

Have you taken advantage of gate side food delivery at the airport? Okay, we admit that we haven’t either, but that’s only because we just haven’t had the opportunity yet! Now there’s one more option to do so, as HMSHost—purveyor of fine concourse concessions—is bringing the B4YouBoard app to Chicago-O’Hare.

In case you forgot how it works, it’s pretty easy. Just fire up the app on your iPhone or Android device, place an order at a participating restaurant, and then wait for a friendly face to deliver your food and beverage right to the gate.

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Delta Brings Live Baggage Tracking to Your Phone Just in Time for Turkey Day

November 23, 2011 at 9:43 AM | by | Comments (0)

If Aunt Edna’s Bean Salad isn’t really exciting you this holiday season then there’s a new option from Delta that may be somewhat entertaining—and useful. We knew that Delta allows one and all to follow their checked baggage throughout its journey, but now they’re bringing the feature to their mobile apps.

With the latest version of the Delta app, you’ll now be able to see where your bag is—and where your bag has been—through its journey from check-in to drop off on the baggage carrousel. It’s just like tracking a package from those guys with the brown trucks, so expect status updates every time your bag is scanned and transferred from one spot to another.

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Layover Lunch Delivered Right to Your Gate Now at MSP and JFK

October 13, 2011 at 9:43 AM | by | Comment (1)

Earlier this year we were dreaming of gate-side pizza delivery, and a few months later our dream has now become a reality. HMSHost—owner of fine airport concessions everywhere—recently launched the B4YOUBOARD app for both iPhone and Android users. What this means is that you can order food from your phone, and that someone will actually deliver it right over to you while you’re comfortably seated at the gate, tapping away on your iPad.

The service was made available first within Terminal 3 at New York-JFK, but the most recent roll-out has arrived at the Lindbergh Terminal of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

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A Traytable Laptop, TV Thing Enters the Realm of In-Flight Entertainment

September 29, 2011 at 9:30 AM | by | Comments (0)

There’s been a lot of in-flight entertainment news lately, everything from like streaming content to bigger screens for your finger tapping pleasure. Now there’s even more stuff to talk about, and this time it’s coming right out of your tray table and it’s all Android-powered.

Skycast Solutions is hoping that their new Trayvu system will be the reason you choose one airline over another, as they’re banking on installing the suckers into all kinds of current and future airplane seating options. The 8.9” screen will be built right into the tray table, and it looks like you can view things in the open as well as the upright and locked position. Just be sure to hold onto that Diet Coke, as we wouldn’t want anything spilling on the new travel technology.

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Download American Airlines' Android App and Score a Million Miles

April 5, 2011 at 8:40 AM | by | Comments (0)

When it comes to travel apps, it seems that iPhone users get all of the good stuff. However, that doesn’t mean that Android users just have to sit back and weep about not having a retina display, as Android phones have access to plenty of apps as well. American Airlines is the latest to update their offerings in the Android Marketplace, and they are pretty eager to have you try it out—‘cause they’re giving away all kinds of free stuff.

All you have to do is download and fire up their current American Airlines app for your Android device, and you are all set. For some that already have the app, just go ahead and get the upgraded version to enter yourself in the contest. It’s definitely worth a minute of your time, as the grand prize winner is going to score one million AAdvantage frequent flyer miles. Even if you miss out on the big prize—don’t worry there’s still hope—as they’re giving away 30 Barnes and Noble NOOKs, too (and they’re the color ones!).

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An Essential Travel Skill: Track, Secure, and Remotely Wipe Your Phone or Laptop

September 28, 2010 at 3:04 PM | by | Comment (1)

We live in perpetual fear of losing our laptops or phones. Above and beyond the cost and inconvenience of replacing the electronics, the privacy impact—emails, passwords, access to logged-in websites—would be devastating. So we sympathize with the Cogdill family, who accidentally left an iPad on a recent Southwest flight. But since they were prepared, and had set up their iPad with the MobileMe "Find My Phone" app so that it was trackable from their iPod Touch, they got it back from the Southwest employee who tried to appropriate it. Smart!

We put "remote tracking" and "remote deleting" up there with "backing up from the road" as things that travelers absolutely must have set up. You want to make sure that you always have access to your data, and that nobody else does. Simple enough. And since there are free services that allow you to do both, there's really no excuse not to take 15 minutes and install yourself some peace of mind. We've put brief instructions for phones and laptops after the jump.

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The Future of Augmented Reality Travel: TagWhat

May 21, 2010 at 4:00 PM | by | Comment (1)

Another week, another slate of augmented reality travel apps to talk about. Last Friday it was the surprisingly cute web application that Hotels.com had put together, turning the camera on users and letting them hold cities in their hands. This week comes TagWhat, a company that claims to be the "world's first augmented reality creation and distribution system." At its core the program is just a social network for augmented reality tags, where you share what you've tagged with your network, plus a few integrated features. In practice, though, it has the potential to be a monster travel application.

The social networking part is fairly direct. Just like you can leave a location-based note on Foursquare and have it pop up when a friend checks in, so too can you use TagWhat to tag a location. When a friend later looks at that location through their browser they'll see the information you left. The tagging is a little more elaborate than on Foursquare, which is what you'd expect since since they're designed to do different things. On Tagwhat you can embed webpages, images, and other elements as well as just text. But the principle is the same.

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Augmented Reality Travel Strikes Again, Thanks to Hotels.com

May 14, 2010 at 4:13 PM | by | Comments (0)

We're usually wary of anything that calls itself a "virtual vacation" since that sounds a little too much like the dreaded "staycation," but the new Hotels.com augmented reality "Virtual Vacation" site is pretty sweet. It's more like a really slick, really shiny series of virtual tours designed to get people out of their houses and into a Hotels.com provided hotel, of course. The virtual tour aspect is straightforward enough, with maps and information on 10 major cities. The tours are fairly in-depth, and there's the added integration of letting users purchase hotels from the main site at any point, but ultimately they're just virtual tours.

As with the other augmented reality travel apps that we've looked at, both for the Android and for the iPhone, a regular old layer of reality gets covered with an additional digital layer that provides interesting information or interaction. What's different about the Hotels.com approach is that rather than pointing a camera "outward" and seeing digital information "out there," you point a webcam at yourself and then it projects a digital layer into your hand. And it looks like a city!

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