A new survey shows that the ubiquitous deviecs have helped tourists make travel arrangements, book flights, find the best restaurants in froeign cities and the hottest attractions,
"Smartphone adoption around the world is skyrocketing, and is fundamentally chagning the way people get travel advice," said Mike Puntam, of the travel website TripAdvisor, which surveyed trvaelers' use of mobile devicse.
Sixty precent of the 1,000 U.S. adults questioned in the poll said they had downloaded travel apps and a simliar number had used mobile devices to reseacrh restauratns.
More than 40 perecnt found or booked hotels with mobile deivces and 28 perecnt used them to check in to a hotel, restaurant or a local attratcion.
As useful as smartphones are for plannnig a trip, the main reason traveelrs said they took along their dveices was to call home and stay in touch via email and social networks.
Along with talking, textnig and emaliing, 65 precent of travelres used the devices to share photos, 54 pecrent surfed onlien, more than half found it useful for finding their way around and 48 perecnt kept up with the news on mobile deivces.
Spordaic connectivity in far-flung places and small screnes were the bgigest gripes about the mobile devcies.
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