World Traveller provides three key pieces of travel information, world times, weather and currency exchange rates. In addition it also incorporates an extended alarm clock which allows multiple alarms to be set.

The time screen offers two views, with two or four clock displayed. The two clock screen offer the most detailed information providing the time, sunrise and sunset times, offset from GMT, dialing code information and the time and distance difference between the two locations. By contrast the four clock screen simply provides the time.

The weather screen list cities the user has selected. Selecting the Weather option shows the weather in detail, including maximum and minimum temperatures, weather icon (sunny, rain, fog etc.) plus the barometric pressure and its trend, rising or falling, and the wind direction and speed. The weather screens graphics are very well thought out and clear, although the display of wind speed in meters per second is not the clearest way to present the information, Lets see 1 meter per second is 3.6 kph so 7 m/s is 25 kph, so its just a moderate breeze. Weather data is provided for five days.

Weather data is updated on demand for the city being viewed. There is no feature to automatically retrieve weather data. On the one hand this helps minimize the data traffic but does mean that quickly checking the weather takes a few seconds, but it is perhaps a compromise most can live with.

The money screen lists four currencies and a value can be entered in any one to get the conversion in the other three. The converted values are a little hard to read with thier grey background (or perhaps a visit to the optician is due). Again there is no automatic update of rate and only the rates for the visible currencies seem to be downloaded, again saving on data traffic but meaning a small wait if you switch one of the fields to another currency.

The world map screen allows cities to be search for, shows where they are in the world and then on selection shows the sunrise and sunset times, current date and time, dialing code, latitude and longitude, GMT offset and summertime zone. Navigation to and from this screen is a little disconcerting at first. Its the last of the screen tabs, so you navigate to it by using the right navigation key. In the screen however the tab list is hidden, because the full screen is used to display the map and cities list, so when you have finished your instinct is to use the back option on the softkeys – but this actually closes the application – it takes a second to realize that you move back a screen with the left navigation key.

Finally the alarm screen, this provides a full list of calendar alarms and those which have been created in World Traveller. The custom alarms are a considerable improvement over the standard one alarm provided by Series 60 itself. Not only can you set multiple alarms but also select the alert sound, screen message and create reoccurring alarms of daily, weekly or for working days.

Apart from navigation out of the Map Screen World Traveller is easy to use and generally presents its data well and with attractive, well thought out graphics. It also appears able to automatically detect the current country, or at least did so when it was first loaded. The fact that it only pull down weather and currency data for those items you want to look at is certainly a benefit in keeping GPRS costs down, but this is at the expense of instant access to current information. For most users this is probably a welcome feature but many travelers would probably accept higher network costs in exchange for instance access. World Traveller is certainly a commendable alternative to similar applications providing time, weather and currency information with the bonus of being able to set multiple alarm.

World Traveller runs on all current Series 60 phones – including Nokia's range, the Siemens SX1 and Sendo X. We successful tested the application on both a Nokia 6600 and Sendo X. Psiloc expect to release a version for UIQ soon.

World Traveller is available from Psiloc (http://www.psiloc.com/?id=prod&nrp=111) for $24 and a fully functional 10 day trial is available.