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I will be going for my honeymoon next week and I’ve done a lot of research to prepare myself so that I won’t get really lost or waste a lot precious time when I am traveling in Europe with my wife. I will be bringing my Garmin Nuvi GPS along with me so that I know where is my current location. The Point of Interest feature in my GPS is also very helpful in finding nearby hotels, restaurants and etc. Another important gadget that will guide me along the way is my newly bought HTC Touch 3G PDA. At first I wanted to buy a simple and cheap Nokia phone but it lacks of third party software, so I went for a PDA instead. It’s running on Windows Mobile 6.1 and there are tons of software for it.

I know that most Europeans travel around Europe using trains and subways. I don’t want to go there then only learn about it so I looked for a software that can maybe help me find my way in public transport systems in Europe and I found MetrO.


Métro is your free guide on PDA (Palm, PocketPC, iPhone, BlackBerry, Smartphone, Symbian) to public transport systems worldwide with over 400 cities covered now. Other than that, updating the software and city files is easy when you install another software called MétrUp. It is a tool that connects to the free update service and downloads the latest versions of your Métro program & city files. You select which cities you want to update (select only one if your connection to the internet is slow) and the programs check if a new version is available. When it finds one, it downloads the file to your device and automatically update the city. If you already have the latest release, no transfer occurs.

Installing MetrO on your Windows Mobile PDA is very easy. Just download the correct package and run setup.exe which will bring up ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center to install MetrO. Wait, it’s not finished yet because you have manually copy the cities .PDB file to your mobile. You can either transfer all cities which is located in ALL folder or select a few from the list. As for me, I only select the cities that I’ll be in so that I won’t waste the memory space on my PDA and also it loads faster when searching for cities file.

Just put in where you are and where you want to go and the software takes you there. There are a lot of small buttons with no description on it. So make sure you get familiar with the software MetrO before you use it. The best place to learn about how to use MetrO is at the official user guide webpage.

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