MobileWish Pocket Travel Assistant (Beta)



 

Current Version: Beta (Build 0.1.0-140709)
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.
 Winner in Manthan Award South Asia 2009 in M-Content Category Adobe 2009 MAX Award Semi-finalist
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Note:
To use the application you need to register using the form below by providing your email id and a preferred User Id along with some related details. The registration is FREE.

Requirements & Compatible Mobile Devices


General Requirements:
Recommended handset display size : 240 x 320 px
Requires Adobe Flash Lite 3.1  installed in the handset
Requires GPRS Network connection in the handset

Compatible devices:
PTA is developed with keeping Nokia N96 in mind. For a complete list of compatible devices click here:

Register Your Email


Please fiil in all the details to register and create your profile for PTA:
     
UserId*  
Name*  
EMail*  
Cell No*

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Town*  
Country*  
     
   
I have read the Privacy Policy and Disclaimer notes on this site and
I agree to the terms and conditions mentioned in the License Agreement.
     
   

If you have already registered ,  click here to download a recent version of PTA.

Features


Some of the important features of Pocket Travel Assistant are as follows:
  • Emergency Information
    Emergency information for local doctor, local emergency no.s, helpline, police, medical facilities and clinics etc.(with street address, phone number and map)
  • 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.
  • Emergency Information
    Emergency information for local doctor, local emergency no.s, helpline, police, medical facilities and clinics etc.(with street address, phone number and map)
  • 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 traveller 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. Search books by title or author name or even the latest 10 books from Gutenberg. Directly read the books in PTA and bookmark.
  • 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. Also there is an innovative way to post about what you are doing. If allowed the PTA can post some messages related to what you are doing while using PTA like reading a book, watching a video at YouTube, local weather details etc. so you do not need to type every time what you are doing.
  • Search Tools
    Search Tools to search for images from Flickr, Videos from YouTube, Information from Wikipedia. (this is a separate section from the location specific results from these services)

Video Demo & Presentation Slides


Video screen-cast of PTA being tested on a Nokia N96 handset can be seen  here. 
View the Slides  here to get more info on the features of Pocket Travel Assistant.

Events



MobileWish Announcements


MobileWish Pocket Travel Assistant (PTA) is a Winner in M-Content Category Manthan Awards South Asia 2009
MobileWish Pocket Travel Assistant (PTA) has won the M-Content category in Manthan Awards South Asia 2009, held in New Delhi during 18-19 December 2009. The Digital Empowerment Foundation has been organising  Manthan Awards  for last 6 years . “The idea behind the Manthan Awards was to focus on technology not when it was implemented for [...]

Final preparations for Manthan Award South Asia 2009 – International Conference & Award Gala
The  Manthan Award South Asia 2009 event is coming near and we are excited about meeting with new people with sharing ideas on digital best practices. There is a 5 minutes presentation on Pocket Travel Assistant (PTA) . We have reserved an exhibition space to showcase the application and discuss with other participants about the [...]

PTA to be showcased at Manthan Award South Asia 2009 (New Delhi)
Pocket Travel Assistant (PTA) will be showcased at Manthan Award South sia 2009 at New Delhi. So if you happen to be in New Delhi, we can meet.  If you wish to be a part of the event, you can register at http://manthanaward.org. Event Date: 18th & 19th of December Venue: NCUI Campus, opposite Sri Fort Auditorium, August Kranti Marg, New [...]


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