According to Tnooz.com, Apple has filed a patent for iTravel, an iPhone application that would allow users to search, book, and receive confirmations for flights, car rentals, buses, trains and hotels. With no official announcement yet, the most likely release date for this function would be this summer when the [...]

Jaunted.com’s taken up the Foursquare debate (noting the Frugal Traveler’s kind-of endorsement) on how useful this location-based social networking phone application is for travel. (In English, it’s a tool that tells people what restaurant/bar/attraction you’re at, and allows you to leave and read tips/reviews about that location). But how useful [...]

Want to avoid racking up exorbitant fees while traveling with your iphone? Be prepared and check out this guide for prepping your phone for the trek through the wilderness of international telecommunications fees. Probably the most obvious thing to do (with all phones) is temporarily add on a specific plan [...]

With over 50,000 apps already for the iPhone, figuring out which ones are the best for the intrepid traveler is the hard part. Lucky for you Travel + Leisure’s naming their top 11 travel apps, ranging from the basic — unit conversion, voice recorder — to the truly necessary — [...]