Over at Mashable.com, I saw a post on how to 11 Essential iPhone Apps for a Road Trip. Quite a few of the apps mentioned do the same thing, but it's always great to have choices.

• MapsBuddy provides quick shortcuts for finding useful places such as gas stations, restaurants and even post offices.
• SimulTravel GPS locates hotels near your locatio and provides detailed information on each hotel.
• Urbanspoon helps you find great restaurants based on your cravings and shows separates them by distance.
• Yelp is the iPhone app companion to Yelp.com. It will detect your current location and give you reviews of hotels, restaurants, and even gas stations nearby.
• Where To?. Another great app for finding places of interest .

• Road Trip lets you to track mileage, fuel prices, graph out trip expenses, and even export the data.
• The Weather Channel provides you with weather conditions for your exact location, as well as radar maps and long-term forecasts.
• WifiTrack helps determine the strength of WiFi hotspots and helps you find the ones that are free.
• Road Trip Fun provides simple explanations for dozens of classic road games like I Spy and Where's the Alphabet?
• Flashlight turns your phone into a flashlight.
• Tweetie so you can Twitter, plus it integrates with TwitPic so you can send your friends and family pictures of you on the road. It also has a location feature for nearby tweeters if you're in the mood for an impromptu tweetup.

Also check out our 10 Tips to get your cellphone ready for travel.

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