Smartphone Apps for Traveling

Skylimo, the private aviation company located in Fort Lauderdale, FL, shares with you the latest in phone apps for traveling. Navita Translator is an app available on BlackBerry and translates more than 50 languages including Spanish, Russian, Italian and Portuguese. It’s a free app that can translate spoken words and text. So if you’re traveling somewhere and need to ask for the restroom, your Navita Translator app will come to the rescue. MetrO is another great app for traveling folks. This one helps people navigate more the 400 cities. It’s free and available on most phones like iPhone, BlackBerry and Palm. Plus, once you’ve downloaded a city, you don’t need a connection. On the MetrO app, you’ll find routes searchable by railway, subway, bus and Tram. Tripit is an app that turns your travel plans into a well organized itinerary. You can add your airline and hotel confirmation to it as well. The app, Sky Limo found out, has maps, directions, and can include dinner reservation as well. Worldmate is similar. It builds an itinerary on your iPhone or Blackberry. It has a tip calculator, a currency converter with exchange rate updates, you can even book a limo ride from it if you choose to.

Travel Apps

The staff at Sky Limo Air Charter always like to report on the latest things and news surrounding traveling and this week’s news is all about the iPhone’s Travel Apps. With more than 22 million people owning an iPhone, these Apps are quite popular. When it comes to these little applications (not just the traveling kind), people always like to collect more and more. There are about 40,000 apps out there plus about 1,000 released each week. According to Travel and Leisure online, a ‘Flashlight’ app illuminates your screen in dark hotel rooms. ‘Currency’ calculates your exchange rate. Some can even help you find a cab. The Yelp App offers you a portal to the user-written website reviews for good food and good party spots. So you can be in Las Vegas and find a great French Bistro within 20 miles of were you’re staying. The TomTom App turns your iPhone into a GPS device, helping you navigate in a new town.
So the next time you book a private air charter with Sky Limo, don’t forget to bring your iPhone and popular Apps with you. You’ll have an easier time visiting your destination and maybe even find a restaurant somewhere. Of course, to book your hotel room or even rent a car, you can always ask the Sky Limo Concierge services to do the job for you. You’re a VIP after all!