The TripChill Mobile Travel Assistant Releases Android Support and Offline Itinerary Viewing

We have recently updated the TripChill Mobile Travel Assistant service to offer a feature-rich web browser experience for all Android smartphones, including but not limited to the new HTC Hero.  This unique web interface gives travelers using Android phones the ability to completely manage their TripChill itineraries while on the road.  Travelers simply navigate to www.tripchill.com from their phone, and they are automatically redirected to the Android specific web interface to create an account and to view and edit their travel itinerary information.

We have also released offline itinerary viewing for both Android and iPhone travelers.  This new feature lets the traveler view their itinerary information when the phone is out of range or disconnected (Airplane mode) from their cell service provider, thus keeping the traveler’s vital itinerary information at their fingertips at all times.

Using the TripChill iCal feed on an iPhone - get real-time travel changes automatically updated to your device calendar

The iPhone OS 3.0 makes it very easy to subscribe to external calendar feeds, such as the TripChill feed for viewing your travel information on your device calendar.  Our feed includes all of your itinerary information such as flight, hotel, car, rail, limo, etc.  You can configure your calendar information to get updated in real-time when a change occurs with your travel itinerary, such as a flight delay.

First go into TripChill Account Settings and click on the Sharing tab, and then click on the iCal button to copy your personal iCal URL.

Paste this URL into an email and send it to yourself so that it loads into your iPhone email inbox.  Click on the URL from your iPhone and choose to Subscribe to the feed:

The calendar feed will get registered by your phone after a few seconds:

You'll then have multiple calendars active within your calendar application.  You can choose to view your standard PC calendars or your TripChill calendar or both:

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TripChill Email Import Support for New Travel Item Types

Our users asked for it - the TripChill Mobile Travel Assistant can now import email reservations for rail, limo, restaurant, and more! We are continuing to expand our support as we receive emails from our user community, so please send in all of the types of email reservations that you have. TripChill will automatically organize your information and provide you with complete access to your travel details from your mobile device browser.

TripChill Expands Itinerary Management With Support for New Travel Types

The TripChill Mobile Travel Assistant now supports many new travel item types in addition to the existing support for air, car and hotel. These new types include rail, cruise, shuttles, meetings, restaurant reservations, bus transportation, and more. TripChill users can even add their own travel types.

This enhancement to the popular mobile travel service allows for the addition of custom fields to include important itinerary information such as reservation numbers, ticket prices, contact information, and any other details that road warriors want accessible from their mobile device while traveling.

According to President Alex Shore, "In addition to TripChill's real-time flight tracking and automated itinerary monitoring services, the mobile travel service now allows travelers and their office administrators to track many new travel types to itineraries from the TripChill website or the iPhone web interface. Travelers can now organize, view and share their complete travel schedule, including trip details that happen before a flight departure and during the stay at a destination. For example, travelers can include information about their limo reservation and ground shuttle before their originating flight, and they can add meeting, restaurant, and entertainment details that take place during their trip."

TripChill in the News

We are presenting at Mobile Monday Boston on Monday, April 27, 2009. Massachusetts Governor Patrick Deval will be there.

We are excited to have been recognized by PC World Magazine. Here is the article.

New TripChill video for updating itinerary with a replacement flight

The following video shows how a TripChill traveler using an iPhone can easily tell TripChill about a replacement flight to continue with real-time monitoring of their itinerary. This video shows the user experience for BlackBerry travelers. And this video shows the user experience for travelers using text messaging.