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GPS Cell Phone
Posted on January 16th, 2007 6 commentsMySpace and Facebook have extended their services to cell phones, but now big companies like Sprint and Verizon are trying to take advantage of GPS technologies. Services like Loopt, also known as Family Locator, or VZNavigator allow users to find the locations of their friends by allowing them to send signals to their cell phones. The distance of the signal identifies where the individual is located. Think about this. You now have the ability to decide if you should wait for a friend when going out or not. For advertisers this technology obviously becomes interesting based on the ability to do location based mobile marketing. Privacy rights and ad standards must be figured out first, but soon there will be the opportunity to send offers and ads to individuals based on their current location. In the future the mall may never be the same.
5 responses to “GPS Cell Phone”
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a friend finder may be a “cool” app and so is location based marketing, but a family finder, or more specifically, a child locator service, is an invaluable one. what parent wouldn’t want to be able to locate their children on-demand? busy parents can know, is my child at school at 8am on Monday – Friday, is s/he home at 4pm when s/he said s/he would be?
Sprint Family Locator, is Sprint’s offering and I only mention it here because, as a parent, you do not actually have to be a Sprint subscriber. just your child needs to have a Sprint phone. this means you do not have to switch from GSM carriers (Cingular, T-Mobile, etc) who do not offer services like this… just get your kid one of these phones. a very useful tool that clearly helps give parents peace of mind… especially if you have a busy, hectic life.
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this phone is ugly the cleo beats it by 100 i lthe ld
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amber March 6th, 2009 at 06:12
Ive got one and I think it looks HOTT !! and it is better than the cleo !
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this phone is sssssssssssssssssoooooooooooooo sweet. i wont it. it has gps, music, and everything i need. haha lol
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you dont no what u r talking sbout bobby.
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Aaliyah…
If your info is correct, which I assume it is. How will this impact web users?…
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jason wave January 16th, 2007 at 13:29