Room 77, the world’s first hotel search engine to reveal room-specific details, today announced its popular, free mobile application is now available in the Android Market. Now, travelers with Android devices as well as the iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® can find and share important information on hotel rooms to secure the best room for their needs.

Room 77’s mobile app is particularly useful while checking in at a hotel’s front desk – a traveler simply enters the room number offered by the clerk and Room 77 instantly advises whether to “take it” or “leave it” and presents alternate room suggestions. Users can also search nearby properties, based on their current location, or browse hotels in another destination. As with the website, travelers using a mobile app can search a range of rooms best matched to their preferences and check out the simulated Room View, which uses proprietary mapping technology to generate the actual view as if you were standing in front of the window.

The Room 77 Android App also includes new features that have been added to the mobile platform since the company’s public beta launch in February. Mobile users now have access to Room 77’s Look Inside feature, which provides room-specific photos submitted by users and/or hotels, allowing travelers to peek inside a particular room before they check in. Sharing such hotel room photos, exit floor plans and reviews with Room 77 via the app is now easier and faster. Users simply register with Room 77, snap photo(s) of the room, add tags, rate the room on a few key measures, and then click submit to share with other Room 77 users.

“Android now powers almost half of all smartphones around the world1, and we’re thrilled to be able to help even more travelers find a great room with the Room 77 Android app,” said Kevin Fliess, general manager and vice president product, Room 77. “Your hotel room can often make or break an experience, and we’re offering travelers more transparency and control over their hotel stay. We’re just getting started and expect to roll out new features, functionality and destinations in the months ahead.”

Room 77 is working to index every hotel room at every three- to five-star hotel and resort worldwide and has data on more than 500,000 hotel rooms in nearly 30 markets, including the most recent destinations added earlier this month: Austin, Texas; Portland, Ore.; and Toronto. Additional cities include: Atlanta; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Honolulu; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; London (UK); Maui, Hawaii; Miami; Minneapolis; Montreal; New Orleans; New York; Orange County, Calif.; Orlando; Palm Springs, Calif.; Philadelphia; Phoenix/Scottsdale; San Diego; San Francisco; San Jose / Silicon Valley, Calif.; Seattle; Vancouver (CAN); and Washington, DC.

To commemorate the Android app launch, Room 77 is giving away one $25 gift card per day from August 10-31 to a randomly selected traveler who submits hotel room photos or room views during the month through the Room 77 mobile app (includes Android and iOS users). Winners will be notified by email.

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