Posted by admin on January 10, 2012 – 10:52 am
Mobile Guides by the Vienna Based Start-Up Conquer the World
tripwolf, a mobile travel guide available in five languages, reports over three million mobile travel guide downloads at the end of 2011. This makes tripwolf one of the market leaders in mobile travel guides worldwide. The guides are equipped with valuable travel information, offline maps and an Augmented Reality viewer, meeting the needs of modern travelers. tripwolf’s mobile travel guides are available for iPhone and Android smart phones. Basic guides are free, while Premium guides currently cost $5.99 per destination, including free updates after purchase.
Among more than 200 destinations, the most popular tripwolf guides are those for Berlin, London and New York, followed by Barcelona and Paris. “With over three million guides downloaded for iPhone and Android, we are now among the most successful players in the field of mobile travel apps”, says tripwolf CEO Sebastian Heinzel. “Our apps are especially popular because they work offline and don’t require the user to have an internet connection to utilize the travel information.” Read More »
Posted by admin on February 23, 2011 – 8:21 am
Free download of all travel guides for a limited time only!
Vienna, New York, 23.02.2011. The online travel guide tripwolf releases a new version of its popular iPhone app now with free offline maps! tripwolf’s iPhone travel app (http://www.tripwolf.com/en/page/iphone) has everything you need in a mobile travel guide:
- All maps are available offline for easy navigation through foreign cities without internet connection
- Solid travel information and photos for thousands of points of interest
- Recent hotel and restaurant reviews
- Augmented Reality viewer for X-Ray vision through your iPhone camera
All these features, including the maps, work during travel abroad without having to connect to the Internet – avoiding expensive roaming charges!
Starting today, all of our travel guides within the iPhone app will be available for free download ($4.99 value).
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Posted by admin on May 7, 2010 – 4:41 pm
Vienna, May 7, 2010. The social travel guide tripwolf adds Augmented Reality to its popular iPhone travel app. By turning the iphone horizontally the camera becomes activated and nearby travel-related information such as sights, restaurants or hotels are displayed on the viewer. This makes the tripwolf app the perfect tool to orient yourself in a foreign environment. The new enhancement was developed in cooperation with the research institution Salzburg Research in Austria.
Augmented Reality connects the real world with the digital world. Travelers are now able to simply point their 3GS iPhone at any Point of Interest in a foreign city and retrieve all available information the online travel guide has to offer, without having to rely on a book or enter specific data. The tripwolf application is also available in offline mode, this way expensive roaming costs are avoided. The newly integrated Augmented Reality Viewer can also be used offline so you do not need to load online maps to navigate. Read More »
