WorldMate is a company that was created to make travel easier - easier to track, easier to book, and easier to keep up with from the moment you receive that itinerary confirmation email. WorldMate already has apps out for Blackberry, iOS, Symbian, and WinMo, and today it is finally filling in the glaring omission by announcing the official Android app.

Features

The most useful feature, to me and thousands of users of this free service, is the ability to forward those itinerary confirmation emails from any of the popular booking sites to [email protected] and have them automatically converted into a new travel itinerary, broken down into individual travel items.

Other features of the Android app, in addition to full itinerary viewing, so far include:

Flight status via Flightstats.com

Google Maps integration

Smart Hotel search and booking through Hotels.com

Currency and weather

I tested the service by emailing it one of my recent itineraries from CheapTickets, and it worked flawlessly, creating entries for each of the 4 flights as well as the hotel automatically. Obviously, the flights had departure and arrival times, but what I really liked was that it automatically added the hotel address and phone number in. Here is what a sample trip looks like:

Searching for a new hotel reservation, powered by Hotels.com, can be done from within the app, and the experience is streamlined pretty well - it's not simply loading a web version from their site.

Of course, this overview wouldn't be complete without a mention of TripIt and its Android app that was released a few months ago, which seems to be in direct competition with WorldMate. I suggest you give both services a try and decide which one is better.

Download

You can download the WorldMate app for free from the Market, by visiting http://www.worldmate.com/android, or by scanning this handy QR code with Barcode Scanner:

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