Currently, there are several applications that aim to cater to the frequent traveler, including Psiloc World Traveler and Worldmate. Unfortunately, those solutions have two major issues, the first being that their travel services aren’t free and the second their way of relying on a component-based approach that doesn’t provide any integration between the flight status / weather / local guide aspects. Luckily though, one service has made it through to the Ovi Store to solve these problems and provide an overall complete reference service for the frequent (or even one-time) traveler: StreamThru by Mantic Point.
StreamThru is a free web service that you can sign up for and use through your computer’s browser or through the widget on your Symbian device. After signing into your account, you can enter a new flight detail by picking the departure airport and arrival airport as well as the number/time of the flight.
After that, StreamThru will present you with a landing page for this particular flight, letting you monitor the latest status updates on whether or not it’s delayed, tell you the Gate check-in times, as well as the Weather in your arrival city.
StreamThru will also present you with a local guide to this city with the current events, restaurants, touristic attractions and everything you might want to experience upon arrival. There’s also a free SMS service that tells you the status of your flight a few hours before departure.
There’s also a killer option of StreamThru that lets you go to Offline mode and access all the information you’ve previously viewed in the application, hence helping you save on data roaming tariffs when you reach your destination.
The free price tag as well as the simple approach to flight information with weather, flight status and local guide makes StreamThru an integrated and complete resource for travelers, especially given how you can access all the information Offline when you reach your destination. Download it from the Ovi Store.
Do you hop on planes often and do you use services to keep you in the loop as to your flight’s statuses? If so, what are these services and do you think StreamThru can replace or complement them?
