iphones & travel

Sam and I are sitting in our hotel room in HB--typing away on our iPhones! Thank you wifi!!

Sam and I debated as to whether or not to bring our phones (we initially thought we would sell them). In the end we decided to hibernate our plans and use them as itouch's. Our phones have been really useful this trip (they weigh significantly less than a computer!) and as we go on we find better apps to use that make traveling easier.

A few of our favorites;
Skpye: the connection is amazingly clear--we just wish more of our friends would make skype accounts so we could call them!!
Cur-con: a currency converter. Because when traveling through so many countries it's hard to keep track of rates and values.
Tetris: (really, I paid the $8, worth every penny! I suck up all of my battery juice for it)
Trip Advisor: we have not really used it much, but it knows where we are and gives us legit ideas.

A few we wish were better;
Sit or squat: could be SO useful! But it has a hard time accepting addresses and it keeps telling me we're in NYC
Yelp: again, not recognizing our location (trip advisor seems better)

A few we wish were better/existed:
Full lonely planet books as apps... Because carrying these suckers totally blows!
A translator that didn't connect to the Internet.
An app that could tell us when we were getting ripped off!

Off to dinner. Will tell all about HB after.