We’ve had Kayak Mobile for a while, a really bare bones hotel and flight search application. It’s basically designed with the idea that you are either at an airport and need a one-way flight, or you are in a city somewhere away from home and you need to find a hotel for tonight.

But more modern phones, like the iPhone, can do more with the web, so we created a UI that is somewhere in between for them. The basic idea is that you can do normal round-trip flight searches, and normal hotel searches. The biggest differences are:

• many UI elements have been dropped to fit the smaller screen
• while booking links are still present, the phone numbers for the airlines are more prominent. On an iPhone, for example, you can touch the phone number, start dialing, put it on speaker, then return to the web browser to read the flight details to the airline rep.

This is just our first cut at this. As always, we welcome your thoughtful feedback for improvements.

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