Alex Kinsella is the product manager for App World over at RIM so when he listed his five BlackBerry travel apps on the Huffington Post I had to check them out. I totally agree with him that the Kayak app is awesome and the WeatherBug app is pretty good. It was the first I had heard of LocalEats so I will definitely be checking that one out.
On the other hand I think he missed some that are standard fare on my BlackBerry. For example, Google Maps is the MUST have travel app on my BlackBerry. Also I find that WorldMate is the best travel planning app out there though TripIt is not far behind. I also keep a copy of both Navita Translator and BBTran (aka FancyTran) handy for international trips. Last but not least I agree that Kayak should be on the top 5 list since it not only lets you search for flights and hotels it even gives you the hotels phone number which is sweet!
So I thought I would throw it out there. What are your top travel apps?
Here is my top 5 travel apps:
Best of all all five apps are free! 🙂
chestr ( View Profile) - Posts: 369
Posted: February 9, 2011 at 1:13 PM EST from my BlackBerry 9800 | OS 6.0.0.450
Google maps
World mate
Weather eye
Tripit
Jay ( View Profile) - Posts: 1465
Posted: February 9, 2011 at 1:46 PM EST
Google Maps is a definite must have. I haven’t done much travelling since BB Traffic came out, but that could come in handy when you need accurate directions. Poynt is a great app for finding businesses, restaurants, events, people and movies. UrbanSpoon would be nice to find local eats. WordRival is a great time killer and fun to play against friends. The in-game chat feature can get your competitive juices flowing with a little scrabble trash talk.
jem9777 ( View Profile) - Posts: 22
Posted: February 9, 2011 at 2:19 PM EST
My top 5:
TripIt
FlightView
Google Maps
Poynt
Urbanspoon
Corey Davis ( View Profile) - Posts: 1337
Posted: February 9, 2011 at 2:32 PM EST
Interesting. I travel a lot and I don’t use many of these besides Kayak for booking. No GPS app as I can search the mobile web or use the car GPS (so no google or BlackBerry maps), didn’t like worldmate, definitely no BlackBerry Traffic. Possibly Poynt.
Corey Davis ( View Profile) - Posts: 1337
Posted: February 9, 2011 at 10:49 PM EST from my BlackBerry 9650 | OS 6.0.0.431
LocalEats is $2.99 and isn’t available on 9650 os 6 :/
Nikolaus Walch ( View Profile) - Posts: 602
Posted: February 9, 2011 at 2:53 PM EST
TripIt
Kayak
Google Maps + Latitude
BB Browser with bookmarks to the mobile site for the airline or rental agency
Poynt to see what’s going on around me
Nikolaus Walch ( View Profile) - Posts: 602
Posted: February 9, 2011 at 2:55 PM EST
Oh for Weather BerryWeather is great with the GPS location so you always know the weather of your location. 50% off right now
Luis Merlos ( View Profile) - Posts: 1342
Posted: February 9, 2011 at 3:46 PM EST
TeleNav
Poynt
Google Maps
BerryWeather
TuneIn Radio
Pageonce
These apps have most of the things i need to keep track of things as well as locating what I need
DaSaint ( View Profile) - Posts: 397
Posted: February 9, 2011 at 4:04 PM EST
Google MAPS
KAYAK
i dont need any other, so thats my top 2
babisboi ( View Profile) - Posts: 416
Posted: February 9, 2011 at 4:38 PM EST
I don’t travel much, but Google maps is fantastic and berry weather is great.
Tango1 ( View Profile) - Posts: 93
Posted: February 9, 2011 at 4:48 PM EST
Google maps and Kayak. Works perfectly for me.
fubaz ( View Profile) - Posts: 860
Posted: February 9, 2011 at 4:54 PM EST
gmaps
beweather
poynt
urbanspoon
BBM!!!!!!!
DaSaint ( View Profile) - Posts: 397
Posted: February 9, 2011 at 6:39 PM EST
lmao BBM is not a travel app……
dshcpa1 ( View Profile) - Posts: 593
Posted: February 10, 2011 at 11:42 AM EST
Maybe he’s a mover and shaker, has bbm contacts in every town he goes to 🙂
shumkar ( View Profile) - Posts: 129
Posted: February 9, 2011 at 5:01 PM EST from my BlackBerry 9700 | OS 6.0.0.448
I use pretty much all of the above. I also have Amaze GPS, which used to be free. It is a very decent voice navigation app with white, yellow pages, address search, local search. It costs about $36 for one year licence. Good alternative to a dedicated in-car GPS system.
dbltap ( View Profile) - Posts: 46
Posted: February 9, 2011 at 7:03 PM EST
I use WorldMate & Tripcase together. Worldmate handles all the calendar sync for me very well. But I don’t think their Pro version is worth $49 a year when the only added feature I would use is the flight status updates. Tripcase doesn’t sync with the BB Calendar.
Agree on:
BerryWeather
Google Maps
Poynt
XE Currency is one I use a LOT.
Navita Translator is also very helpful
dshcpa1 ( View Profile) - Posts: 593
Posted: February 10, 2011 at 11:38 AM EST
Kayak is great but it is massive at like 2+mb.
Local Eats I had never heard of so I’m looking forward to DL’ing that.
I use BerryWeather but the WeatherBug looks decent enough.
Tumblr I dont use.
HRS had never heard of before but looks very cool. Will have to give that one a try as well.
dshcpa1 ( View Profile) - Posts: 593
Posted: February 10, 2011 at 11:40 AM EST
No one is going to argue over Google Maps.
I’d also argue for Poynt. You can search by cell-phone location or manual input and also, the versatility. You can look up local movie showings, restaurants, businesses, gas prices…I’m sure most of you already know everything I just said.
DaSaint ( View Profile) - Posts: 397
Posted: February 10, 2011 at 12:20 PM EST
i think ill give that one a try.
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Posted: February 10, 2011 at 4:48 PM EST
This is a good list, but FlightView is my favorite travel app. With all the weather-related delays and cancellations lately, I need reliable flight tracking. Since this app lets you view flight schedules between cities, I can find alternate flight options if there is a bad delay or cancellation.