Publishing your location-based wireless applications to your handset just got a whole lot easier.
That’s because of location-enabled mobile applications developer uLocate Communications’ new mobile GPS widget platform, WHERE.
Now available on several Sprint phones as of today, WHERE works with GPS location technology to enable WHERE Widgets to be placed on these handsets.
The process is easy: users add WHERE Widgets to their WHERE handset application in one of two ways: by selecting from menus that live on the handset, or by dragging and dropping them from the Where.com directly to the phone.
Developers wishing to write WHERE Widgets would use the PHP and Ruby-complaint.WHERE mark-up language and scripting utilities- which makes it possible to create WHERE apps on J2ME and BREW handsets.
Very cool… the first snowflake of the blizzard. We — and probably everyone under the sun — are going to offer a lot of cool mobile features… that is once we get funded and launched! Cheers, chrisco (buzzpal.com)
Hi Russ,
We went one better – a complete developer platform for adding real time GPS (WHERE) data to a browser. Developers can now build their own Widgets and extend Pocket Internet Explorer to deliver real time GPS from inside the browser. We’re already demonstrating local search based off GPS. For more see our web site http://www.5o9inc.com
Cheers,
Peter
Thanks a bunch for the mention!
WHERE is currently live on 6 Sprint handsets with another 11 coming next week. Additional carriers and many more handsets coming very soon.
The unique thing about WHERE for developers is that we provide the capability to quickly deploy on-deck GPS applications (we call them GPS Widgets) using carrier location such as tower fix, aGPS, etc.
Matt
Not so much related but, it make me think about FoxyTag A mobile social GPS application running on J2Me.
I agree with Chrisco, first snowflake of the blizzard :)
GPS services on the phone is the future. I just wish they were not so tightly bound to the carriers.
thanks