Finding your way around a foreign country can prove to be quite a problem. Guidebooks can be quite helpful in that regard, but frequently limited in the information they provide, especially if you’d like to know where to go out tonight, or what’s the weather going to be like tomorrow. And during the hot summer days definitely the less stuff you carry on you person the better. Well, since this summer, life was made a bit easier for all visitors to Croatia (Lonely Planet’s Top Destination for 2005), with the launch of mobiEXPLORE Croatia, new travel guide for mobile phones. This handy software for mobile phone is not only useful but available free of charge.

This is just a first in series of mobiEXPLORE projects planned for major European travel destinations by Gideon Multimedia, a member of Nokia’s advanced developer program, Forum Nokia PRO.

Croatia is increasingly popular travel destination mainly because it managed to preserve “The Mediterranean As It Once Was” with spectacular beaches, pristine nature and rich cultural and historical heritage. MobiEXPLORE Croatia makes it easy to see all that Croatia has to offer, featuring 157 destinations including national parks, cultural and historical sights, popular but also less known resorts and tourist destinations throughout Croatia. It has interactive maps of Croatia and individual cities, animations, photos, guides, etc., all combined to present information about active vacation, gastronomy, fun and entertainment, sights, news, service information, useful tips and advice, local customs and much more. It even features a small Croatian phrasebook. Intuitive and user-friendly interface requires a really short learning curve and easy to find the information you need.

Best of all, it is available as a freeware. You can download it from www.mobiexplore.com and there you can also see an online demo. Those tourists who already arrived in Croatia can get by calling Gideon’s call centre at +385 21 314 000.

The mobiEXPLORE project is based on Adobe® Flash® Lite™ technology, specifically developed for mobile phones and consumer electronics devices. Flash Lite dramatically accelerates the delivery of rich content and user interfaces. Gideon Multimedia has taken full advantage of its potential to set a new level of expressiveness, efficiency, and interactivity for mobile travel guides. Because of its obvious advantages the technology has spread rather rapidly, as of June 2007 over 250 million Flash devices were shipped worldwide and over 300 Flash different Flash-enabled device models are available on the market. Those users who don’t have Flash-enabled phone can still use mobiEXPLORE system through WAP interface.

Gideon Multimedia is company specialized in multimedia development and publishing. Its CD-ROM postcards, multimedia souvenirs, feature major travel destinations including London, Salzburg, Munich and Bavaria and many others. For its CD-ROM postcards Gideon has won numerous awards at international multimedia contests and innovation exhibitions. The company has already collected a few prestigious awards in mobile multimedia for its work in the development of mobile software solutions

mobiEXPLORE Croatia is only a first in a series of similar projects for all major tourist countries in Europe that Gideon Multimedia plans to launch in cooperation with its international partners.

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Contact person:

Vedran Prazen, executive director

e-mail: vedran@gideon.hr

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