Forum Nokia - Application of the Week: Location-based Services

NAVITIME
NAVITIME is an award-winning point-to-point navigation application for use with S60 mobile devices, enabling individuals to find the fastest and most practical travel route from “point A” to “point B” through a combination of options, including walking, driving, public transit, and flying. This application is a part of Forum Nokia's 2008 Innovation Series. Click on any of the links to the right to learn more.

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WHERE
Where are you now? With this one simple question – and the use of the WHERE platform from uLocate Communications, Inc. – you can find myriad useful answers. You can use WHERE’s location-based widgets to answer questions ranging from where is the nearest brew pub, to where are my friends right now? You can also find answers to questions that you might not have even thought about previously.

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UbiSafe
UbiSafe is a location-based services (LBS) application that enables mobile device users to easily address their own personal security and emergency needs, as well as those of family, friends and individuals with special needs, such as children, the elderly and invalids. Click on any of the links to the right to learn more about UbiSafe.

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Whrrl
Whrrl is a free, social-discovery tool that combines in-depth data and personal recommendations from the user’s own social circles with location-based services (LBS). People using Whrrl have instant access to more than 6.5 million points of interest throughout the United States. This includes bars and clubs, restaurants, movie theaters and concert halls, fitness centers and other personal services, for example. For each of the places Whrrl lists, individuals can access 70 different data points (such as price, hours, distance, neighborhood, type of establishment and cuisine, payment options, features, and user ratings/feedback) that can be used to filter the information, allowing users to make a more informed decision. Click on any of the links to the right to learn more about Whrrl.

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