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Kayak Steps Into TripIt Territory With New Itinerary Feature
Have you started using TripIt yet to organize your travel plans into one little online spot? Kayak hopes you haven't because they just went and started doing the same thing as TripIt with the new "Kayak Trips" feature.
No matter which you prefer, both will instruct you to forward your confirmation emails to them, and they will organize the information into an easy-to-reference itinerary page. This goes for car rentals, flights, hotel reservations and (on TripIt), attraction tickets. The only major difference right now is that TripIt already has an iPhone app that allows you to manage your itinerary via mobile, whereas Kayak's iPhone integration of Trips is still in the works. But then Kayak's been too busy dropping millions to get you to pay attention to them in the first place, so we suppose they're hoping to attract all those who both haven't heard of them nor TripIt.
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· Kayak Launches Free Itinerary Management Tool: Kayak Trips [Kayak News]
· Kayak Launches Massive Old-Fashioned Ad Blitz [Jaunted]
· Kayak coverage [Jaunted]
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NFT Is 'Not For Tourists,' But It Is For Your iPhone
These days, it seems like not a week goes by without some new and hyped release of an iPhone travel app, of course today is no different. From the people who brought you the little black NFT Guides, otherwise known as the brilliantly-named "Not For Tourists," comes the shiny new $4.99 NFT iPhone app.
If you're at all familiar with the layout of a printed NFT Guide, then you'll be instantly comfortable navigating the app by fingertip; it's almost as if the books were designed based on the app and not the other way around. And yes—$4.99 is pricey, but we're talking about a book's worth of content here, when the book is usually about $12.95.
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The Five Best iPhone Apps For Travel Photography
The iPhone is a life-saver for travelers with apps that do everything from help you find restaurants or hotel rooms to apps that keep you entertained while waiting for a flight. But even the new 3GS with video leaves much to be desired for those trying to capture post card worthy pictures with their iPhone. Luckily, there are apps for that too.
We present The Five Best Apps For Travel Photography:
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Conquer Your Fear Of Flying With Virgin Atlantic's New iPhone App
Afraid of flying? Well, you're reading the wrong blog then—ha! But seriously for a moment, if you do have any hesitations about flyin,g or just need answers questions in your head during takeoff like "is that how the engine is supposed to sound," then have we got a new iPhone travel app for you.
The "Flying Without Fear" app comes from the lovely people at Virgin Atlantic's British program to end fear of flying, which recently got Whoopi Goldberg up in the air. Usually you'd have to pay about $350 per person for the courses and in-person instruction to have Virgin Atlantic pilots and crew help you work through your fears, but this new app is only $4.99 in the iTunes store and it even has breathing routines to relax.
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This Fall's Five Best Totally Free iPhone Travel Apps
Too many travel companies create iPhone apps just so they can say they have iPhone apps. In response we've been known to point out how stupid that is, though we've been nowhere near as brutal as our sister site HotelChattter. There's just something about travel companies wasting money on fads - and then passing those costs on to us - that makes us all very stabby.
But that's not to say we're against iPhone travel apps as a rule. And just to prove it, we've rounded up five of our favorite free travel-related iPhone apps from September and October. These apps will help you book hotels the way people actually book hotels, help you locate restaurants the way people actually locate restaurants, and help you maximize your time at Disneyland. Because it's the Happiest Place On Earth.
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William Shatner's On Your iPhone; Just Touch Him For Hotel Deals
We'll come right out and admit it: we have used Priceline's Negotiator before and like what it did for us. Even the omnipotent appreciate discounts and the thrill of chasing a deal. Still, we're not sure how we feel about sitting down to make serious travel reservations on our iPhone. Sure it's the internet just like we get on our laptop, but it just doesn't feel as official. But like Priceline could give a crap how we feel, since they've just released their own iPhone travel app.
The app of course focuses on good old William Shatner, aka The Negotiator, and his special Priceline ability to let you list your own nightly hotel rate blindly for a hotel (after choosing star rating and neighborhood), and possibly be accepted for over 50% off published rates. Our two most recent experiences at the hands of Captain Kirk got us 5-star hotel rooms in both Berlin and Chicago for $80 a night, so maybe if we don't even use a computer to make the reservation we'll be even more cavalier? So long as the app is free, which it is, we'll be fiddling with it. Who can resist a free travel app anyways?
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· Priceline Launches iPhone App For Hotel Bidding [USAToday]
· iPhone: Priceline's new app is best for last-minute hotel bids [BudgetTravel]
· iPhone Travel Apps coverage [Jaunted]
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Postcards from the Edge, er 3G
One of our Conde Nast Digital family members, Concierge.com has released an iPhone app called "Postcard by Concierge.com". Yes there are over 60,000 iPhone apps now, and many of them are travel apps, so we began to wonder what does this Postcards app do? Turns out the first thing we needed to do was upgrade our iPhone to OS 3.01, fair enough. After that, we downloaded the free app and messed around with it for a bit. Here's what we found out:
The postcards app provides users a way to turn their iPhone snapshots into postcards. More specifically you can put spiffy little frames around the iPhone photos, link your current location (via map point) and send the e-postcard off to friends, family, enemies, and exes worldwide.
Simple enough right? But these photo booths have proven to be very successful at parties worldwide, and we all know online greeting cards appeal to hordes, so if the frames are funny and ironic enough the kids might just go for it.
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Air Canada Wins Race For First North American Airline BlackBerry App
Having been the first North American airline with an iPhone travel application, Air Canada has now become the first one with a Blackberry app. The software allows travelers to get flight status updates, confirm their reservation, and even generate a 2-D boarding pass that locks in their seats and sets them up to board the plane. That last feature is the kind of thing that separates airline travel apps from the ever growing list of hotel travel apps. Generating a preexisting boarding pass earlier is better.
We've long been confused by airlines that leave Blackberry users behind while rushing into the iPhone market. Do people with Blackberries not travel a lot? Are companies afraid that Blackberry users aren't as tied to their phones? Have they heard of the word "crackberry?" Air Canada definitely has, per their press release:
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Newest iPhone Travel App Hits iTunes Courtesy Of USA Today
For reasons passing understanding, national newspaper USA Today has launched its own iPhone travel app. The USA Today AutoPilot boasts TripIt integration, real-time flight stats, and various city-specific directories.
Ignore for a minute that most of this app's TripIt and weather features are already offered natively by, um, the TripIt iPhone app. Ignore also that there are great city-specific guides for tourists and that if you're turning to USA Today you might not be getting the most nuanced suggestions. The bigger question is: why? Who at USA Today woke up and thought "you know what we need to solidify our brand? An iPhone travel app."
As it turns out, USA Today actually provided reporters with an answer to that question:
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Cathay Pacific Debuts A Mobile App Not Just For iPhones
Apparently feeling jealous that hotel companies were getting all the attention for useless iPhone apps, Cathay Pacific is getting into the mix with their own mobile products. Since they already had an iPhone app for booking travel, they're expanding to Blackberry and Windows Mobile devices, insisting that "the airline [is] one of the industry leaders in offering mobile services to users of smart phones."
We suppose an airline application might be a little more justified than a hotel app. Flying involves time-sensitive things like monitoring and checking into flights, while hotels pretty much just sit there and wait for you. But there are already convergence apps that include flight status checks and all the airline-specific stuff already exists on m.cathaypacific.com anyway, and you can't print your boarding pass from your phone anyways.
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Listen In On Air Traffic Control From Your iPhone
Noting that Labor Day weekend means one of the busiest travel times of the year, we're tuning in to something other than our iTunes on our iPhone. It's a newish app, released this summer, and it comes from the great people behind LiveATC.net, which lets you tune in to streaming air traffic control at select airports around the world.
At $2.99, it's the most expensive app we've bought, but there's just something exciting about listening in on JFK's Tower as flights depart and arrive for everywhere from Nice, France to Rochester. A few mornings ago, we even caught the air traffic controllers wrestling with some Coast Guard traffic and the occasional helicopter.
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Apple Files A Patent For Location-Aware Travel Advances For The iPhone
Imagine that you've just flown from New York City to San Francisco and as the flight attendant announces "Welcome to San Francisco," you turn on your iPhone to see the same sentiment reflected on the screen, complete with SF weather, current time, and an icon for your SF contacts.
While you can arguably display all this with several more taps on your iPhone, Apple is looking to de-clutter and speed up access to location information for their very mobile user base. In fact, Apple filed a patent application back in February, the contents of which have just been revealed to contain the schematics and concept behind "location-area applications."
