We know that ArrivedOK is completely new kind of service, which hardly falls into existing app categories related to travel and flight status reporting. How would you call ArrivedOK? (Please, don’t forget that it’s not only tracking flights; it tracks one’s personal arrival and alerts your buddies about it).
How would you define ArrivedOK?
Why is ArrivedOK THE PERSONAL flight arrival tracker? Simply because when it notifies your recipients about your arrival it relies on your personal mobile phone status instead of general data from dispatcher centers like all other trackers do. Those data can be about flight delays, scheduled arrivals, departures, even about actual time of a plane’s touchdown but they say a little about YOU – whether you’re okay or not. ArrivedOK does.
Well, it goes a step further in that respect. It’s not a secret that taking off and landing are most dangerous moments of a flight. I don’t want to scare anyone but if a plane crashes at touchdown at the scheduled arrival time, a usual flight tracker still may say that it landed normally, while in fact it did not. ArrivedOK will not mislead you in that case. If you landed safely enough to be able to turn on your phone, it will notify your buddies that you’re ok. If you are not, it will keep shut.
Learn more about ArrivedOK behaviour in different situations (‘Right Time-Wrong Place’; ‘Right Place-Wrong Time’; ‘Wrong Place-Wrong Time’).
See our previous posts about flight trackers:
It directly relates to ArrivedOK but may also help you with other services where you need to spread news on the go via SMS.
A lot of people know about it. It is called … Twitter! In Russia the closest service is called SMSter.
For those, who are unfamiliar:
You can send an SMS or email from wherever you are (including an automatic one from ArrivedOK) and the message will appear in your stream which you have on the web to which people can subscribe, which you can embed in your blog, etc. Usually friends would subscribe to your stream and if they turn on SMS notification, they will receive your news right on their mobile phones. Thus one SMS can spread to many SMS.
The Russian variant works similarly.
Just got a newsletter from fboweb.com where they talk about a updates. Significant features for flight trackers:
1) iPhone App
Track Flights on your iPhone with fboweb.com’s Flight Tracker app! Now available on the iTunes App Store, fboweb.com’s Flight Tracker app! Display a list of flights coming in and out of an airport, track individual flights, and even track flights surrounding your current location! The Flight Tracker app is now available on the iTunes App Store!
2) Group support
Manage and organize users with fboweb.com Groups! Organizations with more than one user of fboweb can take advantage of the new Groups feature to help organize and categorize their members. Perfect for FBOs or Flight Departments, Flight Schools, or even Flight Clubs (just to name a few) who wish to group certain users together.
People say iPhone has changed the mobile ecosystem — its mobile Internet is so convenient that finally the Internet has been accepted on small devices.
What’s more, applications are cool as well. I have decided to review apps in iTunes store in terms of their applicability for travel.
Please add you favorites as comments!
BA Flights
Information about arrivals and departures of British Airways flights. Flight updates. Flight schedules, flight booking from ba.com
Size: 0.4 MB
Cost: FREE
Language: English
Average rating: ***
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