Going traveling? Don't want to carry all those heavy guidebooks, language dictionaries and maps? Well, don't worry, Apple's iPhone has everything a traveler needs. Here are some of the fantastic travel applications available on iPhone.

The first that comes to mind is TravelTracker, which allows you to put all your travel information in one iPhone application. Enter your travel itineraries and dates, this app gives you one-touch flight status information, helps you organize your packing lists, keeps track of all your travel expenses, and more.

Pano is an app that works with your iPhone camera to create panoramic photos for those breathtaking scenes!

Lonely Planet Mobile Phrasebooks give you text and audio translations of common words and phrases from English into Cantonese, German, Japanese, Spanish, French, and more. And with more than 350,000 translations and a multilingual slang dictionary, Ultralingua dictionaries let you travel light and leave the books at home.

You can check conversion rates for more than 90 currencies worldwide with Currency. Choose your master currency, enter an amount, and see what that souvenir would cost back home. You can also use online maps of the London Tube and Paris Subway with live updates!

Turn any photo you snap on iPhone into a picture postcard you can send to friends. Tap the SodaSnap application and browse your photo library for the perfect snapshot. Then write a quick note and SodaSnap turns your photo and message into a digital picture postcard, ready to email. Cycorder is a free unauthorized video recorder for iPhone.

Before you leave, take a photo of your passport, in case you lose it on your travels. And should you lose your iPhone, keep it safe by setting a passcode lock. You might even want to create and set new wallpaper: An If found, please return to... message with your name and hotel.


Top 10 iPhone Travel Apps
1. FlightTrack Live Flight Status Tracker
2. ZAGAT TO GO '09
3. LiveATC Air Radio
4. FlightTrack Pro
5. Translate It!
6. Travel Kit
7. LocalEats
8. Mobile Translator
9. Tipulator
10. PicTranslator

For more information on iPhone travel apps see:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/apps-for-everything/traveling.html