Budget Travel – Smartphone Travel Apps

My wife loves her iPhone. I, on the other hand, am a recent convert. I still don’t have one, but I readily admit that her little handheld-super-computer phone did prove useful on a recent travel trip. I am amazed by all the travel-related applications she can download, in most cases free of charge, that come in handy when we travel to a new city.

The Dec/Jan  issue of Budget Travel magazine has an interesting article about the next generation of smartphone travel apps that use augmented reality technology (whatever that is) to turn the phone’s camera viewfinder into an interactive travel guide.  Check it out at the magazine’s website.