Best travel apps

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Culled from The Week mag, er, this week:

JIWIRE: has the world's largest registry of verified wi-fi hotspots, saving you the painful cost of taking your smartphone abroad (free).

TRIPIT: is a travel manager: send it your confirmation emails and it creates maps, stores numbers and checks for any travel delays (free).

FLIGHT TIMES enables you to check live airport departure boards or track individual flights (59p).

JIBBIGO is a speech-to-speech translator for seven languages - you talk in one tongue, it talks back in another (£14.99).

THE NORTH FACE SNOW REPORT gives recent snowfalls for your resort, plus avalanche warnings and weather forecasts (free).

WORD LENS is so clever, it seems like witchcraft. Hold it up to a Spanish menu, and it provides an instant translation (£2.99).

All available on the iPhone apps store - http://www.itunes.apple.com/gb/app
 
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I've just given TripIt a whirl. Not bad. Pulls information into one place rather than offering anything groundbreaking.
 
Word Lens is absolutely bonkers.

I'll add a few:

Tube Exits - Tells you which carriage to board on the underground so you come out at the right spot at your next station for either the exit or interchange. Understand they have Paris and Berlin as well as London too.

Flight Radar 24 - Ever wondered where the plane above you in the sky is going or has come from? Simply point the camera at the plane and it tells you!

Addison Lee - Book a London taxi on your iPhone, tells you the fare beforehand too and can pay on debit card if without cash.
 
Astounding stuff, to this old biddy who can't even work out Texting yet! Love the sound of Flight Radar 24 - almost as good as listening into the police network!
 
Humans won't need brains soon [you could argue a lot of us don't have them anyway, certainly those of us 'of a certain age']. Just need eyes, fingers, legs and a little black box.
 
It's going to go the other way I think. The human brain will struggle to cope with the data it is required to process.

Augmented reality is very, very close to being workable.

I use Layar from time to time and it is pretty good.
 
If really bored get the app for the relevant airport - so then you can spend hours lookin at your phone and at the screen to see that your flight is delayed!
 
I find the compression of so many functions into one small item incredible. It's only yesterday people were lugging cellphones the size of house bricks around, and now you can get everything in the palm of your paw. I'm sure we will physically continue our evolution, Moehat, as you suggest. In a million years' time, we won't have any hair, our legs will have shrivelled as we'll have reproduced to where we've concreted over most of the remaining planet or be using it for foodstuffs, all but our index fingers will have become tiny, and we'll be talking only when danger threatens, as everything will be via screen. In fact, danger probably won't threaten, as by then we'll have genetically modified ourselves so that everyone who is allowed to be born is 'normal', according to World Government Inc. guidelines.
 
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