“Five million users is an excellent result,” Psiloc founder and CEO said. “We have worked hard to bring services to the market which are useful for both leisure and business travelers—and we hope that we have helped reduce stress associated with travel.”

World Traveler offers a wide range of travel-related services through a user’s mobile phone, including Travel Plan, which synchronizes these services so that a traveler can easily keep on top of his schedule during his trip, as well as plug-ins with features ranging from weather forecasts to currency conversions to inexpensive and fast internet connections at both hotels and airports through top U.S. Wifi hotspot provider iPass.
Such services and plug-ins are offered on both a free and premium basis, with premium/paid-for plug-ins including Flight Assistant, which enables a user to check flight schedule information while also receiving “flight alerts” in the event of schedule changes or late or canceled flights. Likewise, the aforementioned new service, the iPass powered WiFi Traveler, also falls into the premium category while offering access to 260,000 WiFi hotspots world-wide at markedly less rates than what is typically available in the form of mobile roaming fees.

More than 700,000 people use World Traveler on a daily basis, with the majority of users coming from China, India, Russia, Great Britain and Saudi Arabia. Close behind are users from Italy, Germany and Poland. World Traveler is used primarily by Nokia mobile phone owners, with some five million users taking advantage of Nokia’s new E7 model. World Traveler users can also be found among owners of the luxury Vertu-Constellation Quest phones, with the platform coming pre-installed on the device together with other services.

“Although we are traveling more and faster than at any prior moment in history, this does not mean that we are encountering fewer problems during our travels,” Filipiak said. “This is where World Traveler comes into play. We will continue to add services that enable our users to travel with the feeling of greater comfort and security.” World Traveler is compatible with most Nokia S60 3rd and 5th generation devices. It can be downloaded directly from www.worldtraveler.biz, as well as from Nokia’s on-line Ovi store.