People who have an iPhone or iPod Touch and love to check out the various parts of the world can get some help with this new app called Tripology. Tripology is actually an online travel referral service which connects consumers with travel specialists for aid in their travel needs. With over 13,000 Tripologists available to suggest and aid you in your travel itinerary, this app should be the a traveler’s best friend when it comes to accessing potential places that they can go to.

The Tripology app for the iPhone is now available for free download at the iTunes App store.

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When you are mobile or constantly traveling, you have to be careful as well on how you safeguard your data. While some would address it once they touchdown to their local home bases, why wait if you can get a device that allows you to back them up while on the go?

There is such a device and it is called the Clickfree Traveler from Storage Appliance Corp. The company has announced two new products, the Clickfree Traveler and Clickfree DVD Transformer. Available May 7, 2009, both devices are PC and Mac compatible, and eliminate the confusing and time-consuming hassle associated with backing up irreplaceable digital data.

As light as a pen and the size of a credit card, the flash-based Traveler slips easily into a wallet, allowing business travelers, photographers, music lovers and others to carry up to 64GBs of data in their hip pocket or purse. The Clickfree DVD Transformer enables consumers to quickly and easily back up important data to optical discs, bypassing tricky CD and DVD burning software. Coupled with recordable CDs and/or DVDs, it’s an inexpensive yet foolproof way to back up important files.

Pricing:

• 16GB - $79.99 (U.S.)
• 32GB - $149.99 (U.S.)
• 64GB – $249.99 (U.S.)

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Never get lost again or waste time when you are traveling with the TripIt iPhone app. This free application for the Apple iPhone displays a traveler’s detailed itinerary on their mobile phone, so they have all their travel plans at their fingertips.

TripIt is a popular service for organizing and sharing travel plans. With the new TripIt for iPhone, travelers now have mobile access to all their TripIt itineraries, which can include travel plans from more than 500 booking sites. Travelers can quickly find the travel details they need, whether their iPhone is online, offline or in airplane mode, and easily link to websites or call numbers from their itinerary.

TripIt for iPhone was created using the TripIt API (Application Programming Interface) that enables developers to build on TripIt’s open itinerary platform. More than 100 developers are using the TripIt API to create the next generation of travel services.

TripIt for iPhone is available for free in the Apple iTunes App Store.

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The Pharos Traveler 117 has just received the FCC’s blessing so you might be able to purchase one soon enough. It’s a phone and it’s a GPS device. It’s actually a pretty smart phone. Let’s take a look at its main features:

• Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity (850/900/1800/1900 MHz)
• Tri band UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA connectivity (850/1900/2100 MHz)
• 2.8 inch resistive TFT touchscreen display with 480 x 640 pixels
• GPS and A-GPS
• Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0 connectivity
• 2.5mm headset jack (that’s not a typo, there’s no 3.5mm jack)
• 2 megapixel camera
• Secondary VGA camera for video calls
• 400MHz Qualcomm MSM7201 processor
• 128 MB RAM, 256 MB ROM
• microSDHC memory card slot
• Windows Professional 6.1

The Pharos Traveler 117 will cost you $529.95 unlocked so get ready to pay the price if you want the device. We don’t know what carrier will pick the 117 up and we have absolutely no idea why the smartphone comes with a 2.5mm headset jack. Still better than the G1 when it comes to getting music to your ears.

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The last time we mentioned Pharos devices, it was to talk about the Traveler 177 and 127, but they have released a new handset codenamed on the Traveler line, codenamed 619. The popular cellphone with GPS costs $199,95 and is already available for purchase at Dell’s website.

Sporting a 2.8-inch VGA touchscreen, the device has a full QWERTY keyboard and a 2-megapixel camera. The operative system used on the Traveler 619 is Windows Mobile 6, while the network options include quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, and 3.5 support.

In the wireless connectivity department, it boasts bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and IrDA. The battery life is 4 hours on talking-mode, or 200 hours in stand-by.

Pharos Traveler 619

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Nokia announced that IBM Lotus Notes will finally be compatible with a couple of Nokia cellphones, more specifically the ones based on S60. Taking in consideration there are 140 million licensed Lotus Notes users, and that 80 million Nokia S60 phones were shipped, the final result can only be good for Nokia and IBM.

Customers will use the Lotus Notes Traveler software that provides easy and instant access to various traditional functions, like email, calendar, to-do list, and more. The software will become available in the next month, December 2008.

Soran Petersen of Nokia, comments:

This collaboration means nearly 90 percent of business email can be mobilized with Nokia devices, without needing to purchase additional servers, middleware or licenses. With the presence, position and technology that IBM have in the corporate email market, they are an essential partner for us in enterprise

Lotus Notes Traveler

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Pharos already had the GPS Phone 600 and 600e available for T-Mobile customers, but they’ve added two new products entitled Traveler 117 and 127.

Much like the other models, the Travelers are categorized as “GPS Smartphones” and strangely enough they come unlocked, meaning that a 3.5G connection is possible. The 2 new products will be the first ones to make use of Pharos Smart Navigator - their hybrid navigation system that has location services as its main feature.

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