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Bundling is big news these days. We bundle insurance, phone, internet, and more, all in the hopes of saving time,聽energy, and money.

AAA seems to have taken the bundling mantra to heart with the latest update to its AAA mobile app for the聽iPhone聽and聽Android聽devices. The company has wrapped three of its popular apps into one, streamlined service, making things simpler for AAA members and non-members alike.

Before this update, AAA fans had to download three completely different apps to their phones:AAA Discounts (for locating AAA discounts at hotels and other businesses), TripTik Mobile (for travel-planning, maps, and directions), and the always-important Roadside (for assistance when members'聽cars聽go kaput).

Now, those three apps have been rolled into the new AAA Mobile, which technically replaces AAA Discounts: just update that app, and you'll find it replaced with AAA Mobile. (If you have聽TripTik Mobile and Roadside, you'll see a notification about the upgrade on your phone; once you download AAA Mobile, TripTik Mobile and Roadside will be automatically deleted, no muss, no fuss.)

The updated AAA Mobile app also offers a few other amenities you might find interesting, including:

• A database of AAA-approved auto repair shops
• A database of gas stations, including up-to-date pricing info
• Diamond ratings for AAA-approved hotels and restaurants
• And for EV-owners: a database of聽charging聽stations聽for electric cars

This is good news for travelers in the northern hemisphere, who are -- we hope -- in full summer vacation mode. After all, replacing three apps with just one leaves more room on your phone for music, podcasts, and recording your own stream-of-consciousness聽poetry while you drive. (Hey, we don't judge.)

You can download the updated version of AAA Mobile on聽iTunes聽and聽Google Play.