MobiMate Ltd. announced today that its WorldMate Standard Edition 2006, an industry leading mobile travel service, will be pre-installed in the HP iPAQ rx5000 Travel Companion. WorldMate provides portable devices with highly relevant and helpful travel content to make travels easier and more enjoyable.

WorldMate 2006 Standard Edition provides a host of travel related services such as weather forecasts, daily currency exchange rates, measurement converters, world clocks, and more. The program will be pre-installed on the HP iPAQ rx5000 series and ready to go right out of the box. Customers will have the option to upgrade to WorldMate Professional Edition 2006, which provides several enhancements including flight schedules for over 800 airlines, real-time flight status, and enhanced weather services.

I like the idea of moving towards more pre-installed programs on mobile devices, especially if they are amongst the leaders in a category that’s particularly relevant to an individual device. This helps users more quickly appreciate and make use of the power of their mobile device for a broad range of different purposes.

If you’re billing a device as a ‘travel companion’ it absolutely makes sense to include a leading travel-related application pre-installed on it – and leave less onus on users to fend for themselves in finding useful programs.

For more information on WorldMate, visit:

WorldMate main page

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