Travel tips and travel planning in your pocket: introducing Dopplr
for iPhone
Dopplr is proud to introduce Dopplr - The Social Atlas for iPhone. There are lots of travel guides for
mobile phones, but Dopplr's is different because everything on it has been created by the smart
travellers who use Dopplr.
Over the past couple of years, these travellers have been helping Dopplr to build a thing they call
"the Social Atlas". It is the combined wisdom of these frequent travellers, people who know a good
hotel, a nice restaurant, and an interesting place to explore when they see one.
Wherever anyone is in the world, he/she can call up his/hers current location and find the nearest
places that Dopplr travellers have recommended. If the person is hungry, open the app and find a
cafe. If he/she is tired, it will help him/her locate the nearest hotel. And if the person has got time to
kill, find something interesting to see or experience.
The app is not just a view of the atlas, it is also a means of adding new places to the database. By just
tapping the blue locator, it would allow people to enter the details of the fantastic new bar they are
standing in. Travel tips are added to what Dooplr know already, and automatically shared with
fellow travellers.
People do not even need to be on Dopplr to use the iPhone app. If iPhone users are simply doing
some travel planning for a forthcoming business trip or family getaway, there is plenty of useful
information built-in, including Dopplr's recommendations for 250 of the world's most popular cities.
Any places added will be stored on the iPhone, so these can be easily found again when needed. And
if the user joins Dopplr at a later date, all those new places will be uploaded and added to the Social
Atlas.
If the user is a Dopplr traveller, he/she can keep an eye on his/hers fellow travellers with the iPhone
too. Check where friends are now, and where they will be going next. Look for co-incidences, where
people might all be in the same place at the same time. And stay in touch, by sending messages to
them directly from inside the app.
This is just the start. Dopplr is already working on more features for the app, which will appear in
future updates. The app can be downloaded for free by following the link on the iTunes App Store.
Dopplr is a service for smart travellers. Dopplr members share travel plans privately with people they
trust, and exchange business travel tips on places to stay, eat and explore in cities around the world.
Dopplr aggregates this collective intelligence - travel advice from world’s most frequent travellers -
as the Social Atlas.