Traveling abroad with your iPhone? Check out some tips and tricks for intelligent traveling. Whether you are a spontaneous backpacker, touring couple, vacationing family, or business traveler we have some clever tips for you to take advantage of your smartphone on your travels.
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Will you visit this summer the Louvre in Paris, the MET in NYC or the Pinakothek in Munich?
Art Lite is a nice free application for iPhone featuring 5 famous artists and over 400 paintings:
Leonardo Da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Rembrandt, Vincent van Gogh.
Includes a fun quiz game
Available in 4 languages
Art Full version – $0.99
80 Artists – over 5000 pictures
Same features than the Lite version
Love Art: National Gallery is a 209 MB free application offered by the London National Gallery.
250 paintings and around 200 minutes of audio and video comments.
A must-have application for your iPhone if your are visiting London.
Download Love Art from Apple’s online iTunes store
More info on National Gallery website: http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/news/iphone-app
We haven’t written anything about BlackBerry applications but they do exist:
RIM application store has less than 5% as many as Apple’s App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch (around 65,000 apps).
If you are looking for the best BlackBerry applications for this summer, I recommend you this excelent slideshow:
http://www.cio.com/article/497717/_Best_BlackBerry_iPhone_Apps_for_Summer_Travel?page=2#slideshow
Apple filed new patents about navigation systems and several navigation applications already exist on the iPhone.
iPhone GPS features and user experience make traditional GPS devices redundant:
Iphone navigation applications do not require roaming, they can grab your contact information from your address book, iPhone user experience and graphical capabilities are excellent.
More info about apple navigation patent:
http://www.macnn.com/blogs/2009/07/16/apple-advances-iphone-adaptive-navigation-system-patent.html
More info about navigation applications on iPhone:
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