Posts tagged location-based
TeleNav Unveils OnMyWay for Android
Aug 26th
TeleNav is releasing another handy application, OnMyWay into the Android Market today. You know TeleNav, don’t you? They’re the brains behind your Sprint and AT&T navigation titles. To describe their new (free) app’s premise, I think it’s best to use it in a short hypothetical scenario.
Let’s say you are on your way to a ten o’clock brunch meeting and you’ve got a an hour drive ahead of you. You start off on time, but later you find yourself stuck in traffic and it looks like you’re going to be late. What’s the best way to to let everyone know what time you’ll actually get to the restaurant? You don’t want to call everyone, do you? And we all know better than to text while driving, right? OnMyWay does this for you.
OnMyWay alerts a pre-set recipient or group of people as to your status and ETA. Set the notification right before you start driving and everyone gets an alert (text and/or e-mail) that tells them when you are expected to arrive at the destination. If you run into anything that might delay you, OnMyWay automatically sends an update to those that matter. Their new message tells them that you’ll be late and provides the updated ETA. This way, you don’t have to worry about anything but driving safely.
To create an OnMyWay notification, you’ll need to follow a few quick steps:
- Input a destination
- Enter a scheduled appointment time
- Selects or enter phone numbers and/or e-mail addresses to send alerts to
- Start!
Your phone contacts are integrated into the app so there’s no need to hunt anything down. Further, you have the option to send personal messages with your notifications. For those of you worried about privacy, OnMyWay never shows your specific location, nor does it share it with any recipients. Keep your eyes peeled for OnMyWay in the Android Market!
TeleNav Unveils OnMyWay for Android originally appeared on AndroidGuys.
GPS-Based FastFoot Puts Team of Runners Against “X”
Aug 6th
So you’re pretty good about getting outside and running or jogging everyday, but you are looking for something different. Might I recommend a new app for you called FastFoot? This GPS-based fitness title will have you changing up your route right away. Here’s how it works: two to seven players compete against each other using their mobile phones. One of you is “X” and your job is to avoid getting caught before the time (25-60 min) runs out. You can use the live radar to see where the other players are whenever you want. The Runners hunting you down, however, can only see your location once every six minutes. To even things out, they have the advantage of being able to communicate with each other.
FastFoot comes in two flavors, a free and Premium, although I can’t tell what the difference is from their descriptions. The app is available in iPhone and Nokia versions as well, with all three playing nice with each other.
Here’s a video trailer showing the premise of the game. Although it’s almost two years old, you get the point.
NOTE: GPS-Based FastFoot Puts Team of Runners Against “X” originally appeared on AndroidGuys.
NearVerse Announces Proximity-based Music and Video-sharing App, LoKast
Jul 21st
NearVerse has announced the release their first location-based Android application, LoKast. Billing themselves as a proximity internet company, it makes sense that the application is designed around sharing music and video based on real-time location. Already available for the iPhone, LoKast allows users to discover music, pictures, videos, contacts, and more from nearby users. Optimized to run in the background, LoKast (“local casting”) lets you know when someone else is nearby. Once you are close enough (300 feet) to other users, you’ll be able to instantly share media back and forth.
Interested LoKasters can download the application from the Android Market for free and set up a profile within minutes. Thanks to background capabilities, you can set it and forget it. Your profile is ready to be shared publicly! The next time you are at a concert or social event, you may find that the artist is sharing videos or contact information.
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NOTE: NearVerse Announces Proximity-based Music and Video-sharing App, LoKast originally appeared on AndroidGuys.
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Social Check-In Comes to SCVNGR
Jul 20th
The up and coming check-in service known as SCVNGR has just announced a rather cool feature today that rewards users for going places with friends. Starting today, folks running SCVNGR on their Android and iPhone handsets can check-in with friends by bumping phones together. Cheers! Points are assigned based on the number of users checking in together at a rate of two per friend. Ten friends at the office party equates to twenty points!
Even better is the fact that you don’t have to literally be friends with everyone, nor bump phones. Using their “near-field device-to-device recognition technology”, an entire conference or stadium worth of people can check in “together”. If you happen to share your location over Twitter or Facebook, the service will automatically @mention everyone associated with the check-in. That is, of course, provided you are into that whole broadcasting thing. The next time you arrive for dinner or a drink, open SCVNGR and check-in. Don’t forget to tell your Android-toting friends to do the same! NOTE: You will need an Android device running 2.1 or higher to take advantage of SCVNGR.
You’re probably asking what makes SCVNGR different from say, Gowalla or Foursquare. That’s easy! Rather than simply providing badges and stickers for checking in, SCVNGR turns the whole thing into a game. Each place listed on SCVNGR comes with a list of options and associated points. Start with snapping a photo or leaving a comment for a few points. Business owners and frequent visitors can also add their own challenges for rewards, too. “Take a picture of yourself eating the Belly Buster” for five points!
NOTE: Social Check-In Comes to SCVNGR originally appeared on AndroidGuys.
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CabSense Makes Hailing a Cab Easier for New Yorkers
Mar 31st
The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission and Sense Networks, Inc. have announced the release of CabSense, an app designed to make finding and hailing taxis easier. With this free application, users can figure out which street corners offer the most best chances of finding a cab based on the date and time. CabSense provides the current location of the user as well as a few options. If you find yourself in a part of the city with a relatively low number of taxis, CabSense will find and recommend nearby car services as well as provide an option to call a livery cab.
CabSense also features:
- Radar View — A color-coded tool that points users to the highest rated corner nearby
- Time Slider — Users can plan ahead and view the best corners to find an available taxi at a later time and day
- Taxi Hailer — Once users find an available taxi, they can simply shake the phone and it will whistle for them
Grab CabSense for free out of the Android Market or scan the barcode below!
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‘Happy Hours’ Appeals to Your Inner Jimmy Buffet
Mar 2nd
A new app has arrived in the Android Market called Happy Hours and it is likely to be a hit. It’s one of those “genius-in-simplicity” applications that appeals to many of us. Open the app up, let it detect where you are via GPS, and find nearby happy hours. Period. While this might not be the newest idea on the planet, it does offer one advantage over similar apps. Rather than being confined to specific metropolitan markets or one in particular, Happy Hours kicks off with more than 30 to start.
Designed with help from Village Voice Media, the app pulls up over 15,000 happy hours from across the United States and offers up additional resources. Learn what kind of food is service, what the atmosphere is like, and read reviews from other users.
The following cities are already supported by Happy Hours: Akron, Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Boulder, Broward / Palm Beach, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Fort Worth, Houston, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York, Oakland, Orange County, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Portland, Saint Paul, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Seattle Eastside, St. Louis, Tampa, and Washington DC
Source: Washington Post/TechCrunch
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Garmin Announces nuvifone A50 Ahead of Mobile World Congress
Feb 11th
After more than a year of waiting, Garmin is set to show off their newly announced nuvifone A50 next week at Mobile World Congress. As it turns out, the device is more GPS than phone. Surprise!
The Android-powered A50 features a 3.5-inch, HVGA capacitive touch screen, 4GB of built-in storage, Microsoft Exchange support, full GPS, and other navigation services built-in. The touch only device also comes with an accelerometer, 3 megapixel camera, and the Android Market. With a heavy dose of Garmin, it includes an e-compass and their own cityXplorer maps, as well as real-time, location-relevant information like weather, traffic, fuel prices, safety cameras, and flight status. Look for the A50 to arrive in Europe sometime in the first half of 2010. Pricing and carriers have yet to be announced.
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