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"The BlackBerry Travel app has just launched for BlackBerry 10 devices, giving Z10 owners the ability to plan, book, manage and share their travel arrangements on the move.\r\n\r\nRather than simply porting the old version across though, BlackBerry has taken the time to add some additional features that take advantage of its new mobile operating system.\r\n\r\nThe first is trip status sharing, which allows users to publish updates about their journey on BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Sorry Google+, no love for you just yet.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nFlight status sharing, meanwhile, is a more useful tool for letting other people know about possible problems up ahead. The app has always been able to notify users of any changes to their flight, but with today\u2019s update it\u2019s now possible to tell other people about a delay, cancellation or change of terminal.\r\n\r\nWhich is pretty useful if, for instance, someone has come to pick you up and you\u2019re still waiting for your luggage, or have ended up arriving in a completely different part of the airport.\r\n\r\nOf course, so much of planning a trip now comes down to the price. Many new services, such as Google Flight, have filters that help users find the cheapest day, time or location to fly out from. BlackBerry Travel is no different, as it now offers a \u201CPrice Alert\u201D service that notifies you if there\u2019s a cheaper price for the hotel room you\u2019ve booked.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nLikewise, if there\u2019s a similar room in a different hotel, but at a cheaper price, or a far better room for only slightly more, it\u2019s possible to cancel the original booking and re-order from within the app.\r\n\r\nBlackBerry ID, the company\u2019s overarching account system similar to Apple ID, is also supported so that your personal preferences are stored and readily available within the app.\r\n\r\nSoftware support is crucial not just for a new mobile operating system, but also for specific OEMs looking to differentiate themselves from the competition. BlackBerry has been trying hard to entice developers - it announced earlier today that it now has 100,000 apps in the BlackBerry World storefront - but it will likely be its own software that impresses users.\r\n\r\nBlackBerry Travel is a longstanding product and if it can continue to innovate with it - the app already offers hotel and car rental booking, itinerary management, flight searches and more - it stands a much better chance of holding on to its traditional enterprise users.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 BlackBerry Travel | BlackBerry 10\r\n\r\nImage Credit:\u00A0FRANCK FIFE/AFP/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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