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Smartphone Travel Apps for Business Flyers
The smartphone world has seen an explosion of applications. You name the category and there is probably an app out there for it. For us travelers, how do we maximize the functionality of our smartphone and make life easier when we travel? By finding apps that fit our needs.
Let’s cut through the tens of thousands shall we and take a look at some recommendations:
Google Maps: FREE – a must have for travelers. Simply put, your personal navigation tool that tells you where you are and how to get where you are going.
Kayak: FREE – everything travel rolled into one. Flight, hotel and car rental search capability .The app includes My Trips so you can easily manage your itinerary. (FlyME is another cool all-in-one travel app)
Expensify: FREE – Import expenses and receipts straight from your credit card, submitting PDF expense reports by email and reimbursing up to $10k online. Great way to track and stay organized while on the go.
Fast Food: FREE - Location app shows you restaurant deals, menu, reviews, ratings, maps and info all on one page. This app will save you money, let you find all kinds of restaurants, give you nutritional info, restaurant menu’s, reviews. Available on iPhone and Android smartphones. For Blackberry users, try Poynt. It’s FREE and provides a good experience.The Weather Channel: FREE – Enough said. Plan your wardrobe accordingly. Read the rest of this entry »
Lost or Stolen Smartphones: How do you protect you and your company?
Many of us have experienced. We’ve either lost our smartphone or had it stolen. When that happens, it feels like our world has just stopped. Thieves are drawn to smartphones. They are easy to steal and worth a lot of money. As business owners, the real issue is sensitive company information. Confidential emails, personal and business contact information, text messages, pictures, BBM chats and contacts. What do we do? Who do we call? Read the rest of this entry »
Apple Airplay extends the life of the iPhone 4
Airplay leads the way in iOS 4.2 update
The iPhone 5 is not out as yet and won’t be in Canada until fall. So if you are about to purchase an iPhone and you want to know whether to wait until the iPhone 5 comes out, well Apple gave you another reason NOT to wait….with AirPlay.
Canadian Business Travellers to the US – Lower your Wireless Bills!
Many of us have experienced it first hand. We travel away on business or someone within our organization does, only to hammered with an enormous wireless bill at the end of the month. It is no secret that Canadians pay ridiculously high roaming rates when travelling within the US, but what can we do? How can we reduce what we pay?
Avoiding Bill Shock In Canada
Managing your cell phone bills – 3 Quick Tips
As reported by the OTI in their latest survey and Canada’s Commissioner for Complaints for Telecommunications (CCTS), Canadians still have the dubious record of being the most expensive cell phone market in the world and Canadians are filing more complaints about overly complex or confusing options, carrier errors and billing related issues. So what do we do? One thing you can do as a Canadian cell phone subscriber is understand your cell phone plan to make sure you don’t end up facing bill shock woes.
Here are 3 quick tips that we find most clients misunderstand about their cell phone plans that you can’t afford not to know.
Don’t get your next cell phone plan before reading these 5 key tips!
5 important things to know about Canadian cell phone plans.
The Canadian cell phone industry is confusing and difficult to understand. When comparing plans you have to deal with calling circle plans, specified evenings and weekend minutes, “anytime” minutes – its all so confusing. Well here are 5 items that you may not be aware of that you should know while you compare cell phone plans:
3 Tips for getting the best cell phone deal
#1. Understand your needs
What do you really use your cell phone for? Unlimited anything always seems attractive, however, “unlimited” typically comes with a hefty price tag. I happen to have an unlimited data plan – a relic by today’s standards – but I only use 25MB of data per month. So what do I with it? Well, I check and respond to emails repeatedly when on the road. I can’t say I enjoy typing emails on my phone so I keep it short; however, I do approximately 150 emails per month. I don’t do a whole lot of web browsing from my device, in part because the experience isn’t the greatest, (HTC S720 – Slider Keyboard) but I do browse the web as more of a necessity. For example to win an argument or prove a point – I Google It -, to find a location or the contact information of a business or to get updated scores of games. The cell phone market usually communicates data plans in gigabytes (GB), so to put it differently I use 0.025 GB of data per month. So if I had a 1GB data plan I would be able to do 40 times as much as I do per month all things being equal. The biggest culprit we hear off when it comes to exceeding one’s data plan is watching videos from YouTube on your cellphone. That is the fastest way to run up a huge bill if you aren’t careful, so some common sense is required. Know where you stand in terms of data usage, check out this table to learn more about what you can do with the various data plans.
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How to Dry a Wet iPhone
Don’t panic there is hope… well sort of.
I recently got caught in the rain on my motorcycle. I didn’t realize that my iPhone was in an outside pocket that didn’t have a waterproof liner. I rode home in the pouring rain for over an hour. When I finally got home the phone was still on and drenched. The phone was so wet there was water dripping from the bottom of the phone. I immediately turned the phone off and begun to dry it with a towel. I removed the SIM card and noticed that the water had gotten into the phone. I got out a blow dryer and begun to blow cool air into the phone from every opening. (Never use hot air as there are several sensitive areas that use a delicate adhesive that may loosen and cause more damage). I continued drying the iPhone for 2 hours, alternating the direction of the air from the top of the device to the bottom. Read the rest of this entry »
iPhone Messenger – Ping!
Push Email Notifications for iPhone
New APP from the guy who brought you Smart Dial, Memory Sweep, PushGmail and seven more apps. Now you can message your friends from one iPhone to another iPhone using Ping! Similar to the Blackberry Messenger, with push notifications. Using a unique Ping! ID you will be able to message your friends with an iPhone or iPod touch. Both parties will need a Ping! ID to use the service. The app is free and you will not be charged additional carrier charges, like text messaging fees.
The design and layout is similar to the SMS app and it behaves in the same way. Any messages you send will instantly arrive at the recipients’ iPhone. If you’re not using the phone, a notification will pop up on the home screen. Read the rest of this entry »
Photo Contest Winner Picks iPhone
myCELLmyTERMS.com First Contest Winner
Congratulations to Colleen Cole of Brampton Ontario, the first place prize winner of “Summer in Toronto” photo contest for her submission Dad at The Game.
Colleen Cole (snickerzmom) won the “Summer in Toronto” photo contest on Lenzr.com and then had a choice to make…
On Sept 3rd 2009, she met Paul Peic of myCELLmyTERMS inside the Arriba restaurant on the north side of the Rogers Centre in downtown Toronto. They talked about her cell phone strategy as the Blue Jays rehearsed on left field below. Colleen is a smart phone ‘early adopter’ who purchased a HipTop II phone (released as the ‘Sidekick’ in Canada) back in April 2005. She was busy taking pictures with her phone back then too.
The meeting was the perfect end to an exciting promotion that just happened to coincide with another family visit to a Blue Jays game (playing New York Yankees) with her father, who is the subject of the winning photo. Here’s Paul presenting Colleen with her choice of phone.
