One of the most-hyped, if under-used, features on Helio phones is the Buddy Beacon. Using the phones’ integrated GPS, you can use it to update your friends as to where you are, and request they do the same. The downside is they all had to be Helio members.
But Helio sold Buddy Beacon to uLocate, who’s expanding the application to Sprint, Boost, Alltel, Metro PCS and the iPhone, while keeping it in the Helio family.
What’s really cool is they’ve created a Facebook app that you update from your phone, so your peeps know where you are whenever you’d like them to. As you can see in the image above, Peter Ha’s at a Russian brothel in San Diego. It works. Free for Helio users, carriers will set their own prices when they launch their independent versions.
Buddy Beacon [Facebook App]
cool tech, I just wish it worked here in the middle of nowhere…but matt, you shouldn’t call out peter while he’s working at his second job!
hopefully this means no more “where you at?” commercials, because i am an “english major, looking for meaning in things where there aren’t any.”
i believe that was a three point swish…and one…
Unfortunately, What No-one is Talking about is ..Once you load the New beacon App and post One Single Marker.. Facebook Now has a new addition to sell to its Off Site Marketing Customers.
FaceBook is Already Closely being Watched by the FTC and Several consumer Protection Groups Both Overseas and in The US because of its ‘Data Collection Techniques’ And Collection of Personal Information.
So now they Have the Facebook Account holders Cell number and.. as he add’s friends – they now get their Phone number (and any and all of the new friends , contacts as he adds them) ..as well as the address and whatever notes etc that they save under the marker notes.
Real Nice.. Plus.. the ‘Buddy Beacon’ is a add on app. So any Parents etc. that already have Safe Watch software etc for the facebook acct..well,, too bad this works OUTSIDE of the Web application.. Do you know what your kids are doing???