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- Category:
- Social Networking
- Release Date:
- Jul 04, 2008
- Homepage:
- http://loopt.com
- Publisher:
- Loopt, Inc.
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-See where your friends are and what they’re doing via interactive maps
-Connect on the fly and instantly share your location, photos, and comments with friends
-Link Loopt to simultaneously update all your blogs and social networks, such as Facebook® or Twitter®
-Go to the Loopt Mix tab to meet new people nearby
-Explore places and events recommended by friends and services like Yelp®
-Control privacy settings quickly and easily
Loopt is supported on over 100 mobile devices across all the major U.S. carriers so you can share your location with all your friends and family. Loopt does not store or share your contact list with any 3rd parties. All SMS alerts from Loopt can easily be disabled in your privacy settings after your account has been verified.
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Posted 12/30/2011 at 9:35am | by J.R. Bookwalter Christmas 2011 is now but a memory and New Year’s Eve is imminent -- but are you ready to share the joy with friends, thanks to your Mac or iOS device? Or maybe you’ve cut the cord on your cable or satellite and aren’t sure of where you can watch the ball drop at midnight? Fear not, we’ve got some ideas for making the most of your New Year’s Eve with your Mac, iPhone, iPod touch and/or iPad. With each passing year, many of us cut the cord on expensive cable and satellite bills and catch up with our favorite TV shows using Hulu, Netflix or other methods. That generally works great until live events such as the ball dropping in Times Square on New Year’s Eve -- but fear not, even this event can be found online if you know where to
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Social questions mobile apps are usually advertised as a way to find out, in real time, the status of a location. Normal application tends to be situations like wanting to know “Is that bar crowded?” But users are starting to find even more practical uses for these kinds of apps, with questions along the lines of “Is it safe to go surfing right now?” or “Which stores are open?” as during Hurricane Irene and the London riots. There are several iPhone apps that allow users to ask questions of random people checked in to various locations. That includes location-based question apps like Locqly, Crowdbeacon and Social Questions (mobile app for Quora), but those aren’t focused on real-time answers. Loopt, a location-based check-in app like Foursquare and Gowalla, now has a questions feature for several cities, but those questions (at least initially) were posed by the company’s own community managers. Localmind is
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Social questions mobile apps are usually advertised as a way to find out, in real time, the status of a location. Normal application tends to be situations like wanting to know “Is that bar crowded?” But users are starting to find even more practical uses for these kinds of apps, with questions along the lines of “Is it safe to go surfing right now?” or “Which stores are open?” as during Hurricane Irene and the London riots. There are several iPhone apps that allow users to ask questions of random people checked in to various locations. That includes location-based question apps like Locqly, Crowdbeacon and Social Questions (mobile app for Quora), but those aren’t focused on real-time answers. Loopt, a location-based check-in app like Foursquare and Gowalla, now has a questions feature for several cities, but those questions (at least initially) were posed by the company’s own community managers. Localmind is
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...weeks ago Loopt launched its Qs service in the Bay Area and today they told us that 14,000 questions (Qs) have been answered. You may remember from...
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Loopt Qs, the new service launched by Loopt we talked about few weeks ago, is now live in the SF Bay Area and will be gradually expanded to other parts of the country. To get your city to the list, simply demand it from this page on Loopt’s website. What’s Qs again? It’s a new way to get and share bite-sized tidbits of information about the place you’re at or where you’ve been, want to go and so on. It offers real-time answers to common questions like: Is there a long line? What’s the best happy hour special? Is this place WiFi-friendly? In other words, you’ll get simple and straight to the point answers. Likewise, contributing content is super easy and Loopt hopes to have more people participating and sharing the information. Still don’t get it? Check out a video below briefly demoing the service. Like it? Hit the link below
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Apple has compiled a list called their 2010 Rewind. In it, they have named the top Apps of the year, and gathered them all up into one page so that they can easily be found. Let’s take a look at their top Apps in each category. On this list, you will find Apple’s best apps of 2010. Everything from best iPhone games of 2010 to best educational apps of 2010. Note that these are not our picks (though many of our favorites did make the list) but it’s a compilation of Apple’s favorite Apps of the 2010. Let’s take a look at Apple’s iTunes 2010 rewind: Shoot, Edit, Share – Best of iPhone Camera Utility Apps of 2010 1) Hipstamatic – 99 cents 2) Path – Free 3) Instagram – Free 4) Pocketbooth – 99 cents 5) iMovie – $4.99 6) Splice – Video Editor – 99 cents 7)
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I remember Loopt being one of the first apps out on the App Store, back when the iPhone's platform was first released. A couple of years ago, location-based social networking was still pretty new (most cell phones didn't yet know exactly where they were, after all), and Loopt was one of the most advanced ways to do it at the time. Now, while services like Twitter and Facebook work on their own location sharing features, Loopt is updating to version 4.0 and aiming to, once again, try and take the vanguard. The app has been redesigned, and it seems to be set up around persistent social location sharing -- you can not only share your location constantly, but you can also instantly see where friends and family are. You can also use the "Ping" feature (unrelated, of course) to send texts, and you'll get a message back from your friend about
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...offers a location-first view of the world, shining a spotlight on friends and places around you, whether they’re on Loopt or Facebook,” sa...
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Much has already been written about how Loopt was perhaps a bit too early to the location game for their own good. But that doesn’t mean they’re not out there still trying new things to keep their over 4 million users and entice new ones to join. The latest such effort is Loopt 4.0, their latest mobile app. The first thing you’ll notice about Loopt 4.0 is that it has been entirely redesigned. More importantly, the app has been significantly simplified, to clean up the user experience. On the main screen you can now quickly jump to five areas: Me, Settings, Places, Friends, and Map. The last three are the most important because that’s where you will check-in and see where your friends are. Below the core buttons is an area to be able to quickly toggle auto location sharing on and off. This is a core feature that is unique to Loopt among the
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...out who's around, what to do, and where to go. #iPhone #iPod #iPad http://is.gd/dyzjh...
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MG Siegler is a general partner at CrunchFund and a columnist for TechCrunch, where he has been writing since 2009. His focus is on Apple. Prior to TechCrunch, MG covered various technology beats for VentureBeat. Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. He’s previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked in Hollywood and in... → Learn More “Foursquare gets all the hype.” It’s something I hear just about every day from just about every other location-based startup. And it’s true, though I would argue that it’s warranted — and investors seem to agree. But it’s also important to keep some perspective. While Foursquare is just shy of 2 million users, other services like MyTown have quickly surpassed that number. Same with Google Latitude, which is at 3 million. And you can put Loopt on that list as well, as today they’ve hit 4 million
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by Geolocation service Loopt has just launched a feature that lets you access the last 30 days of your location history as a downloadable KML file. KML, which was developed for Google Earth, is a file that includes data associated with your location that can then be used when creating more interactive maps or trip logs. The feature is especially useful if you have background location, a new feature of Loopt 3.0 for iOS 4 [iTunes link]. Background location sharing, which is enabled via the new multitasking features in iOS 4, allows users to automatically keep track of their location changes so that they do not have to constantly check in or update their status messages. You can customize who you want to share your location with (if you want to share it at all) and how often your location is updated and monitored. The really cool part of background location
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What better timing than a cross-country road-trip, and the beginning of my effort to become a fully-mobile blogger, for Trapster, the iPhone app that keeps track of road hazards, speed traps and even roadkill, to update with background location for iOS 4? The update means that, as me and my traveling partner-in-crime make our way across the length of the Volunteer State today, we'll be constantly updated on the various snags and snares awaiting us. Or will we? Trapster is one of the first applications we've heard of (outside of location-based check-in service Loopt) to bring background location to the new iOS 4, and it means a world of difference for an app like this. In theory, the app will check your location against a database of user-submitted road hazards and notify you when one is near. It's like having a radar detector that alerts you to not only speed traps,
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When Loopt first launched on the iPhone alongside the App Store in 2008, it looked to be an awesome new location-based service. Apple clearly agreed, as they gave the app plenty of face time: demo slots on stage at major events, appearances in commercials, promotion in the App Store, etc. But the early version of Loopt had a fatal flaw: to work properly, the app had to be running all the time. Now, this wasn’t really Loopt’s flaw, since the iPhone did not allow third-party applications to run in the background — but it was still a flaw. Today, that flaw gets corrected — sort of. The new version of Loopt, 3.0, which is set to appear in the App Store at some point today, is built to use Apple’s new iOS 4 software (formerly known as iPhone OS 4). The biggest new addition to the software is the ability for third-party
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We let you know a couple days ago there were a few apps that had already been updated via the App Store to support iOS4. Since then we’ve seen a few more roll out. Some developers have really taken advantage of the new APIs in iOS4. Others seem to just be adding compatibility at this point. Let’s hope a lot of them are working on substantial updates. Hit the jump for some more iOS4 compatible apps! Evernote (version 3.3.5) is one of the first I’ve seen to implement quite a few 4.0 APIs. Not only does it come complete with fast app switching integration, but your notes will also be able to sync in the background. This will be extremely useful for users who like to upload pictures. I’m always doing this when I’m comparing prices. I’ll take pictures of SKUs from different stores and tag them accordingly which allows me
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Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 UTC +00:00
As wedding season progresses, the “I do’s” are ringing more frequently. That’s more brides with more wedding days -- and more potential disasters. Thankfully, your iPhone, iPad or Android phone can get you out of any wedding day bind. For the bride that wants it all, here are some mobile apps that will help you grace your way through your big day. iWedding Deluxe is everything you need for your wedding organization. Contacts with sync options, guest lists, search and management tools keep all the details you need at the tip of your finger (or your best friend’s, rather). The $7.99 iPhone app is as necessary on your big day as it was planning for it. With your to-do lists and vendor list, you’ll have all the necessary information on hand with WeddingWire. The free iPhone app has management tools for planning the wedding, and a vendor search in case you
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By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Apr 7, 2010 | Loopt has not only launched a new iPad app this week, Loopt Pulse [Free - iTunes link], but now a new version of their iPhone app as well [Free - iTunes link]. What’s the big difference? How about the ability to easily find interesting people, places, and events with just your iPhone and Loopt’s map screen. Yawing in the middle of a droning conversation, eyes drooping at a lame party, not sure where to go in the center of sleepy-town USA? Loopt’s full-scale assault one boredom just might have your back. There’s also a new version for BlackBerry, if you find that interesting. My Canadianess prevents me from trying it (location services are typically highly region-sensitive by virtue of their content partnerships), so if you give it a whirl let me know if I’m missing out.
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I have to admit it: I like location-based social networking apps. Probably my favorite to date has been FourSquare, which I love because I'm the "Mayor" of a couple dozen locations. But this type of app isn't for everyone. My wife, for example, says that she thinks they're a bit too much like stalking (to which I replied, "there's an app for that"), so she won't use them. Rally Up is a new location-based social network (that's so awkward to say) that has several features that may sway my wife. The free app for iPhone, and soon for iPad, lets you set granular friend preferences. What does that marketing speak mean? Easy -- you set your real friends to "real" on a slider, which means that they get full notifications (i.e., "Steve is at the Blue Bonnet Café) and their check-ins show up in your feed. The next slider setting is
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By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Mar 11, 2010 | Tapped on App Store and what did I see? Updates for Tweetie, Loopt, Foursquare, and Flickr — and a couple of those say iPhone OS 3.2 (aka iPad) right there in the What’s New listing. (Yeah, that doesn’t mean 3.2 is coming to the iPhone or these are 1024×768 versions, likely just that they’re built using that SDK for maximum blackboxing on the iPad). Tweetie [$2.99 - iTunes link] has just hit version 2.1.1 and brings iPhone OS 3.2 compatibility(!), Foursquare (4sq.com) integration, Vodpod video uploads, Post ‘message’ parameter to TwitPic, and Instapaper Mobilizer. See our previous Tweetie coverage for more on the app. Loopt [Free - iTunes link] expands the product’s Pulse feature to include tens of thousands of local events, and allows check-in to events, public Tips, and the ability to RSVP to events posted on Facebook. It’s also got you
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Loopt v2.2 is expected to hit the App Store at any moment today, which will expand on the app’s Pulse feature to help you find even more local events that you can share with friends. The update will be arriving just in time for all of you SXSW goers. How convenient? By accessing the now conveniently placed Pulse tab, you will be able to find, check-in at, share tips, and RSVP to tens of thousands of events with ease. You will also be able to see which of your friends are currently at these events, and which are going to be attending. For some music events, you will even be able to a hear a sample of the band playing from within the app. “Locally-relevant content is crucial for helping people to truly discover the world around them,” said Sam Altman, CEO of Loopt. “By adding Events to our Loopt Pulse,
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With SXSW starting Friday in Austin, Texas, every location-based service out there is right now finalizing updates that they hope will be the one that gets them used more than all the others. Loopt, is betting on events integration. The latest version of the app, due to hit the App Store tomorrow will feature a new Pulse tab. Here you’ll find events populated from a ton of sources including the live music tracker SonicLiving (SXSW is first and foremost a music event, after all) and most notably, Facebook. This pre-population is important, because it means the events will already be in the system so users won’t have to do anything other than share it with friends, or check-in if they’re going. The feature also uses you current location to show which events are happening around you at any given moment that a lot of people are at. As you might expect, you
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By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Feb 22, 2010 | Loopt [Free - iTunes link] has added curated restaurant and bar recommendations via a partnership with TastingTable. With more and more location-based apps and services becoming available on the iPhone, we’re once again seeing a lot of crowd-sourcing (where users enter locations, ratings, tips, and recommendations) used to power it. Loopt, one of the original location apps, is going the other direction and using TastingTable’s team of editors to provide an expert level of detail for potential customers. Crowds can typically cover more, curators can typically cover better. If you try out the latest version of Loopt, let us know how the new recommendations work for you!
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If the iPhone has a leading app genre, aside from gaming, I'd say the current surge of "check-in" apps is probably it. Sure, back when the App Store first opened up, Twitter apps were everywhere (and they're still being made daily, it seems), but in terms of a genre that can only exist on a location-aware device like the iPhone, "check-in" apps like Foursquare, Gowalla, and so on, are making their mark right now. Here's news on two such apps continuing to grow on the App Store skyline. First up, Loopt [iTunes link] has announced a partnership with a company called Mobile Spinach to start trying to monetize this kind of app usage. Mobile Spinach delivers local ads, and Loopt says that it'll be using their location-based social networking service to bring specials and deals to users from wherever they check-in from. Note that while Apple doesn't necessarily want location-based advertising
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by Loopt was one of the first applications to socialize location-sharing from mobile devices. As of late, however, its service has been eclipsed by the buzz generated by relative newbies like Foursquare and Gowalla, who’ve thrown a social gaming twist into the location mix. To compensate, Loopt is migrating more towards these apps in functionality: A new tool —Tips — was included in an update to their iPhone app [iTunes link] last night. Tips is fairly straightforward — and almost a direct replica of Foursquare in terms of function — allowing users to add their personal recommendations to places. Tips appear in a few different touch points, so you can add a tip to a place page and your Loopt check-in message can double up as a tip as well. While convenient at times, the “share your check-in publicly as a tip” option is default for Loopt check-in messages, which means that
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Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More Chorus, the recently launched iPhone app that helps you discover other apps, is revealing the most recommended apps from their community. Developed by envIO Networks, Chorus is sort of like a mobile social network based around the apps that your friends have downloaded and lets you tap into your existing social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, to share with your friends. The app features real-time feeds from your designated friends (those who have also downloaded Chorus and whom you have friended) displaying the apps they are downloading, and
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By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Sep 4, 2009 | Loopt [Free - iTunes link], which matches social networks with location-based services into one smoldering hot Web 2.0 sammich, has struck a deal with AT&T that will let them update their iPhone users’ location information even when the Loopt app proper isn’t running. Yes, you read that correctly — the Loopt iPhone app isn’t being granted any extra special background multi-tasking sanction by Apple for the iPhone, this is strictly a server-to-server, Loopt-to-AT&T deal, and it will come at a price. BusinessInsider scores the scoop: Loopt will first offer the new always-on service in a trial for 5,000 users. You can sign up at Loopt’s site using your iPhone’s MobileSafari browser. After the 14-day trial, the always-on feature will cost $3.99 per month, added to your AT&T bill. BusinessInsider also renews that old rumor about how Apple is seriously considering limited multi-tasking in
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Reviews
Trumps All Other iPhone Social Networking Apps
spacehog.
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
This application is by far the best social networking application on the iphone... I have tried all of them now. Sign up and Set up was easy, inviting friends was easy... everthing works! A solid "A" in my book!
The future of social networking!!
aaron662c
Version: 1.5
Version: 1.5
This is a very useful service! There is nothing cooler than being able to see what your friends are up to. And the app on the iPhone is definately better than anyother mobile platform that loopt has out. It's great to see which friends are near you and awesome that you can switch who can see you in about 3secs. The implementation of yelp reviews for places of business is great too. No more bad resaurants or bad service:-) I wish I could work for them! Do you guys have any sales positions?? Great work! The future is all about LBS trust me I've been in the mobile telecommunications industry for 5 years!
This app is great!
iamtylerdurden
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
Eat your heart out whrrl! This is the way to stay in touch!
Hi There!
bungabanga
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
Awesome!! 5 Stars
Very impresive, can only get better
bradv
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
I must say this app has a lot of potential that will become unlocked as more people become connected and the 3G iphone GPS features become available. I can't wait till my friendslist is filled up.
Awesome!
outboost
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
Should get better over time, not a bad program at all. I tried others but this seems to be the best.
Get over it, Loopt is the best
TalllGuy
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
Loopt is the best social-spatial app I've seen so far. It updates your position and is a fun way to track your friends. I've had a few bugs where it couldn't locate but then I found it was an iPhone internal error.. As far as SMS goes it does send you them though you can turn them off at will. It's quite cool
Loopt...
G.Moore
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
Love it! Down side is I don't know many people with a smart phone!
Great App - Dont listen to the negative reviews!
Yosmel
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
First of all let me say that this is an amazing application that, given time, will really grow to be something unbelivably fun and cool.
For the record - this app does NOT run on SMS and it does NOT use SMS to locate you and it does NOT [insert ignorant comment about SMS]. What it DOES do is chose to send you various alerts via SMS by default; all of these alerts can easily be switched off with a tap of the finger by going to your settings. All of the reviews giving this wonderful app 1 star because of this misconception should be deleted.
Now that that's out of the way let me share my thoughts on the app. It's definitely one of the best of it's kind - the location function works flawlessly even over edge on a 1g phone. It has a built in feature that allows you to search through your contacts and see if anyone on there is already using loopt, which I thought was very cool. Throw in the built in locations by Yelp (restaurants and what not), built in integration with Twitter and Facebook, and you've got yourself quite the social application.
As others have mentioned, however, it isn't quite perfect. Although a small problem one thing I don't like is that you need to open loopt and have it relocate you anytime you go somewhere. Because of this the location of your friends may not always be accurate if they have forgotten to open loopt when they went somewhere else. A small problem, to be sure, but a problem nevertheless. Hopefully the guys at loopt can deliver on a solution with future updates.
omgg
sodirty
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
cant wait til it loads up w iphone users
Great
Puma237
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
Awesome app. Much better than others like it.
Uses SMS, make it too expensive, rip off.
Ninos iPhone
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
Why use SMS it makes it expensive and slow by needing to send SMS.
If they make a option of SMS or Internet then it would be a cool app.
cool app
andriyk
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
Probably one of the coolest apps...this is an awesome way to network with friends through iPhone. i love it
Loopt FTW
seatrz
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
This is the best of the find friends and places app, just tried them all.
cool to see where your friends are
SiliconValleyChic
Version: 1.5
Version: 1.5
awesome to see your friends' locations! having yelp on there is hot! so far, using it with a few close friends and it's a new way of communication. me likey.
Bugged software
RapidMovement
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
This thing doesn't even let you invite friends. Everytine I click on it it sends me back to home screen. Basically it's just a map
Fun for a full 3 minutes.
Thrill23
Version: 1.5
Version: 1.5
it is great for about 3 minutes. After that it is a waste of space on your phone.
Registetion problems
deprimer
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
I registered for Loopt on their web site a few days ago, so when I downloaded this app, I tried to use my existing details. No dice. Nothing worked.
Then I tried to register - after taking me all the way through the process, I was asked to click a link in an SMS which took me to their web site where I had to enter my password again then I was told to click another link which took me back to sign in for the app, then it crashed.
This whole process clearly needs to be improve
This is a great app! Also, it does NOT use SMS for data.
vafarmboy
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
True, it uses an SMS or two to verify your identity, but after that you can disable all SMS messages. (They're used when people ping you, want to friend you, or to let you know you have a new comment.) All data goes over WiFi or the cellular network.
Very cool app
tlrobinson
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
Integration with Facebook, Twitter, Yelp is great.
WOW
RBasil
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
Love being able to post my status and location to Twitter! Works great even on a non-3G iPhone!
Ok, I guess...
JGroUSMC
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
Cool program, however your friend who are on other services have to pay a small fee. You might also get your wireless number out there so third party partners can send you SMS messages. If you download this be sure to have unlimited SMS plan as that is how it tracks you on NOT your GPS...
Great app! Now I can update twitter while seeing where friends are!
PandaChi
Version: 1.5
Version: 1.5
Don't know what people are talking about, haven't received any SMS spam at all - you can go into the settings page and turn off all SMS notifications and then you don't need to worry about it ever again, unless you want to get a txt whenever a friend invites you (I know I don't, especially since AT&T charges $5 for 200 msgs now).
On the fence
G550
Version: 1.0
Version: 1.0
Great interface, nice and clean and easy to use. 2 problems
