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Features
Pocket Travel Assistant (PTA) is a Freeware
for Flash Lite 3x enabled mobiles that offers one stop solution for all
the information needs by a traveler. Name any major city/town in the world
and PTA will provide every possible information for that place which will
be needed by a traveler. The application combines data from Google Maps,
Yahoo, Flickr, Wikipedia, BBC, Reuters, Twitter, YouTube and many more to
provide users with all the relevant data needed for their journey plan.
Some of the important features of Pocket Travel Assistant are as follows:
Currency Converter
Currency Converter tools to allow user to convert money
amount in any of the 48 major world currencies with in a few clicks. All
currency calculations are done based on most recent currency rates.
Currency Rates section lists all the currency values from 48 major
currencies
Location information
Location information such as (street address, phone number and Google
Map) for shops& malls, station& airports, institutions, hotels & restaurants,
govt. offices and police, hospitals and banks and many more etc.
Wikipedia Info
Wikipedia details for the location such as history, demography, culture,
landmarks, which will be useful for the traveller to know more about
the place.
Flickr Image Results
Flickr image results for the location, so that the user can see current
images related to the location. There is a separate search section for
custom searches.
YouTube Video Results
YouTube video results for the location. So that he can enjoy videos
related to that location, to get a more clear idea about the place.
Weather Details
Weather details for the location such as Temperature, Humidity, Air-pressure
and the Weather-condition.
Google Translation
Language Translation using Google Translation for English to major languages
like Greek, Spanish, Chez, Russian, French etc. so that the traveler
can translate the written scripts and have a better understanding of
his surrounding.
Local News of the
Area
Local News related to the location can be tracked to
know more about recent happenings surrounding the location.
News and RSS Feeds
News and Feeds section provides more than 50 categories from international
news: from BBC, Reuters, Yahoo, CNN and many more related to headlines,
finance, sports, health, science and technology and environment and
many more.
Currency Converter
Currency Converter tools to allow user to convert money
amount in any of the 48 major world currencies with in a few clicks. All
currency calculations are done based on most recent currency rates.
Currency Rates section lists all the currency values from 48 major
currencies.
Project Gutenberg e-books
M- book library (Project Gutenberg ebooks ): To pass
leisure time traveler can read from classic works from thousand books
available at Project Gutenberg under M- book library section.
Publish to Twitter
Twitter : Under section ‘connect and publish’ user can
post to his Twitter account or just read messages from his friends at
Twitter
Important Note
To use the application you need to register
at
http://mobilewish.com/pta/ by providing your email id and
a preferred User Id along with some related details. The registration is
FREE.
More Info
View screen-cast of the application in action at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H6cOmWEWFY
View the Presentation details at
http://www.slideshare.net/MobileWish/mobilewish-pocket-travel-assistant-the-world-in-your-pocket-25-may-09
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