Location on your phone?

Jan 31st, 2009 | By Jesse | Category: LBS, archive

Sue and Frank gave e gruff on this week’s episode about the volume of location apps I have (or at least had) on my phone, so i decided to share the current list and ask others what location apps they are running. I have reduced the number of apps substantially. At one time I had all 8 pages (the max you can have on the iPhone) filled with location apps, free and otherwise, but I am down to only seven location apps:

Maps, GPS Tracker, BrightKite, EarthScape, Google Earth, OSM Track, TrackMe, and a number of apps that can pull location for various tasks.

I can’t even say that I use all of these that often. The question for you though, is what apps to you have installed on your mobile device and how often do you use them?

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  1. Adam Estrada February 1st, 2009 6:34 pm

    Jesse,
    I use BrightKite and Loopt all the time as you’ve probably noticed through Twitter. BrightKite is good for posting photos and I find that Loopt is better suited to see where your friends are in relation to your location. I live in Atlanta and think its pretty cool to ping my friends to see where they are using Loopt. I am trying to make this technology more than just a novelty but at this point, that’s exactly what it is…I see using LBS’s in emergency response very useful. Especially with BrightKite because you can check in to a location using SMS which I think every phone in the world has now! Check out this quick comparison on compete.com. I would put my money on BrightKite! http://siteanalytics.compete.com/brightkite.com+loopt.com+whrrl.com/?metric=uv

    Adam

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