10 iphone apps for business travelersReviewed by Tarun Upadhyay on Apr 14Rating:
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TripIt: Now available for iPhone. forward your trip emails (from airlines, hotels etc) to tripit and have then available as organized trips with offline access on your iPhone. Very useful for people who travel a lot.
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Kayak: Book the next flight home while you are in the cab going towards airport !! Or find out the cheapest hotels as soon as you get off the call with your customer. Call airlines or hotels at the touch of a button (they have phone numbers for all of them).
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Evernote: A great note-taking application for your iPhone. Take Notes in meetings, Take pictures of whiteboards. Record people as they talk. Sync it all back to your Mac (or Windows) automatically over the air.
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LinkedIn: Your LinkedIn on the phone !! Learn more about the person you are about to meet or search contacts in your network on the fly !! And yes, its free.
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Nexonia Expense: Note down your expenses on your iPhone as they occur. Have it all automatically sync to a web application accessible from desktop. Take pictures of your receipts or fax them to an 800 number. Export nice expnese reports to HTML, PDF or EXCEL.
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RowMote: Using your iPhone to flip your powerpoint slides for every little meeting gets old soon but its still worth doing it for those big conference rooms or large meetings. Works with both Keynote or Powerpoint (also controls FrontRow, DVD, VLC and lots of other apps)
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Yelp: In a new area and do not know what will be a good place to grab lunch (or dinner of your favorite cuisine). Why not go where locals go – using Yelp!!
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Tip: There are dozens of tip applications in the appstore. Some are even free. But i like this 99 cents app. Its has the highest rating of all tip apps and it am
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Cheap Gas: Find the cheapest gas prices near you. So okay, company is paying for the gas in your rental but you can still use the app to find the nearest gas station (and if there is one across the street that is 6 cents cheaper, it wont kill you to use that!!).And yes, its free.
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Kindle for iPhone
: Carry your entire library with you on your trip and read whatever you feel like – with no weight !!