Speaking travel guide wins best handset application award

XS2TheWorld has won a bronze award in the category “Best Handset application” for their “Mobile Speaking Travel Guides” at the international Mobile Content Award (MCA) conference 2008.

XS2TheWorld was nominated earlier for both ‘best handset application’ and ‘best entertainment service’ by the judging panel at the Mobile Content Awards (MCA).

“We are delighted by the MCA award as we were competing with some globally recognised players; this is an important endorsement for our mobile application. We have been gaining real momentum with brands, global ad agencies and customers around the world who similarly have recognised the effectiveness and simplicity of both our Java application and mobile platform.” said: CEO and co-founder Sander Munsterman.

XS2TheWorld has developed the world’s first ’speaking mobile travel application’ that turns a phone into a multilingual holiday or business lifeline. The application contains hundreds of phrases for each of the current 20 languages supported. Not only does it display the phrases on your screen phonetically, it fluently speaks them in the local language. In addition the XS2 ‘Mobile City Guide’ provides all kinds of directions to the best restaurants, bars and tourist places of interest, including pictures.

The XS2 consumer travel products can be downloaded online.