subject: 10 Great Android Apps for the business traveler [print this page] 10 Great Android Apps for the business traveler
There seems a new Android smartphone is released almost monthly and the number continues to grow Apps. This GPS-enabled smart phones now provide significant processing power in our palms, something we only imagined just a few years ago. Tools are available to help us to share updates, files, directories, location check-ins, access location-specific services, and a ton of other things. If you're traveling on business, these tools are a necessity not only to continue with home but also to remain as productive as if you were back in the office.
The Android platform is already an established industry standard, supported by Google and providing a viable alternative to the iPhone. You can now depend on your Android phone for increased productivity time while on the road or home, or get you access to files from multiple devices in different locations, or find a restaurant in a strange city needs.
Here are 10 useful Apps for the Android Smartphone:
1. Barcode Scanner
For when you go shopping to make your business trip. Scan the barcode of a product and the app will bring vendors and locations or to buy, online retailers and product prices.
2. ALOQA-Travel Companion
ALOQA (Always Be Local), which uses GPS to pinpoint your location first and then find activities, events, shops, restaurants and a lot of other things around you. This is especially useful if you are new to a city and just a few days stay. This application helps you to the local environment or in the local atmosphere of a city landmark.
3. GoAruna - File Sharing Management Tool
For the business traveler light (without laptop), you can access your files via laptop GoAruna. Just drop your files into this application to leave the house or office and have access via your Android phone. With all the hassle of check-in and baggage security at airports, so the laptop behind is a big advantage.
4.VNC Google Viewer
VNC you can securely log in and connect to a remote machine, so you can easily make changes without really saving on your smartphone.
5. Meeting notes from Evernote
This is a great application for taking notes at meetings and includes voice recording (useful for voice memo reminders), and photographs. How many times have you ever seen a picture of the White Board to take a few hours in a meeting? This application allows you to organize all your clips, find them and even email. The image element is also useful for capturing and organizing a copy of your airline ticket and other costs of revenue.
6. Cab4Me
This is another useful free App, which is able to taxi companies in near your GPS location and to include reviews of the services - a very useful tool for the business traveler.
7. Talk to Me
This is a great translation tool and a must when visiting a foreign country. You speak and the phone talks back to you in a different language. Your own interpreter in your pocket. Current languages in this application are: English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. And it's free.
8. TripIt
If you are a frequent traveler, TripIt is a great tool. And another must have. It organizes flight, hotel, restaurant and other routing information in an easy to read format, as well as giving you GPS directions. It can be very useful if you have connecting flights to worry about, by alerting you to a gate change for example.
9. Currency
This application converts to 160 currencies with real-time exchange with a calculator. You can also track trends, charts and receive news.
10. Cash book
Checkbook is an expense tracker, a key tool for business travelers. Allows you to easily keep track of your weekly and monthly balance as well as your mileage.
This 10 Apps, you are probably good for your next trip, travel updates, local information, productive, while the remaining distance of the office.
