New iphones apps updated with recent week travel apps. Here’s an article by Tanya Mohn (link)
Priceline.com released a Negotiator App (free) that lets travelers make last-minute bids on hotels. The app sorts hotels by location and gets a little help from William Shatner, a k a the Negotiator.
Not For Tourists, which fancies itself as a hip insider guide for locals, released iPhone guides for New York City, London, San Francisco and other cities ($4.99 each). In addition to touristy places like hotels, the guide highlights neighborhood amenities like bicycle repair shops and community gardens.
Virgin Atlantic also released an app, but not for what you think. The airline’s Flying Without Fear program, which helped Whoopi Goldberg with her airplane phobia, is now a $4.99 app. It offers breathing exercises and calming answers to doomsday questions like “What if all the engines fail?”
Another cool idea comes from PicTranslator, which turns the iPhone’s camera into a kind of translator: point the camera at a sign with foreign words, and the app translates them into English. It is available so far in 16 languages ($1.99 each), from Czech to Turkish.
Expect many more travel apps in the not-so-distant future. Just this week, Hilton Worldwide announced apps for each of seven of its brands in the United States, including Hilton and Doubletree (free). Among other things, the apps allow users to “e-check in” and order room service.
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