Apps or mobile Web, which will it be? TripCase just answered the question by launching a mobile Web version to supplement its Android, iPhone and Blackberry apps.
The mobile site at http://m.tripcase.com, which is optimized for mobile browsers, is geared "to the millions of mobile phone users who don't have access to mobile apps," TripCase says.
Users of the mobile site can access all their itinerary information, which is the heart and soul of TripCase, but they would first have to add and maintain trips using their desktop browser.
As with apps' users, travelers accessing TripCase via the mobile site will receive messaging including flight alerts about delays, cancellations and gate changes.
For now, users of the mobile site cannot access TripCase Tools, which in the apps provide touchscreen access to features such as alternate flights, a currency converter, seat maps and directions.
But, TripCase says an advanced mobile Web version will be coming later in 2011 and it will offer access to TripCase tools.
TripCase announced the debut of its mobile site in a blog post.
mobiThinking estimates that 90% of mobile subscribers in the U.S. and Western Europe have Internet-enabled phones.
Crunching the numbers, TripCase, which is a Sabre company, estimates that there are 500 million mobile phone users in Western Europe and the U.S. who could now access TripCase's mobile site if they choose to do so.
TripCase isn't counting on 500 million -- but you have to start somewhere.