Best Travel App Finalists

The 2012 Readers' Choice Awards on About.com

The winners have been announced. Find out who won here.

	Boingo Wi-Finder Developer: Boingo Wireless Inc. Price: Free Ever been in a strange city or a new location and needed to get online, but you couldn't find a Wi-Fi hotspot anywhere? Wi-Finder aims to change that. This app helps you search for both Boingo and free hotspots based on your geographic location and then shows you your results on a map. Now you'll never have to be without a high-speed Wi-Fi connection again! Download at iTunes
	Packing Pro Developer: Quinn Genzel Price: $2.99 Never again get to the destination of a trip only to realize you've forgotten to pack something crucial. Packing Pro helps you create and complete packing lists for your trips. It also suggests items you may want to have but could be forgetting. If you'd rather not build your list from scratch, you can use the pre-made lists or share a list with another user via email. Purchase at iTunes
	Quickoffice Pro Developer: Quick office Inc. Price: $14.99 Thanks to Quickoffice, you don't need to worry that there are no official iOS versions of the key Microsoft Office programs like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. With this app, you can not only open those files on your iPhone, but you can also edit or create them. Sync the documents you create to web-based sharing services like Dropbox, Box.net, and Google Docs. Purchase at iTunes
	Speed Tracker Developer: AppAnnex Price: $0.99 Get all kinds of detailed information about your trips with this app. Speed Tracker lets you chart your distance, speed, travel time, average and maximum speeds, and much more. A helpful app for people looking to keep track of how fast their kids are driving, how long it takes them to get somewhere--or who are looking to set some kind of land speed record! Purchase at iTunes
	Trover Developer: Trover LLC Price: Free Find amazing street art and interesting locations around the world that have been tagged by other users with Trover. This app combines location awareness and social networking to allow users to take pictures of interesting things and then GPS tag them. If you've got the app running, when you're near those locations you can find out about them and then go check them out in person. Download at iTunes

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3. Voting runs from Feb. 22 through 11:59 pm ET March 21, 2012.

Results

Winners will be announced March 30. There's no prize -- just the bragging rights that come with getting recognized by the readers of one of the biggest networks on the web.

Check back with iPhone/iPod at About.com on March 30 to see if your favorite iPhone/iPod accessory or app was nominated and to vote on the finalists. You can also visit our central awards page to learn about finalists in other categories.

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Sam Costello
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