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Buddy Beacon Now Available Across Carriers

Feb 13, 2008, 10:00 AM by Eric M. Zeman
updated Feb 14, 2008, 4:47 AM

Today a new version of Buddy Beacon was released that expands usability beyond Helio to four other carriers. Buddy Beacon lets you share location information with others and allows you to map and find one another. Buddy Beacon will now work on certain phones for Sprint, Boost, Alltel, Metro PCS and Helio, all of which are CDMA carriers. The service is also available for the iPhone. The new version also adds the ability to specify custom activity and location info. uLocate recently purchased Buddy Beacon and now operates the service independently.

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txguy07

Feb 13, 2008, 11:01 AM

T-Mobile

Due to some errors(miss type) in the brief summary we were given, I didn't understand whether they stated that only CDMA phones can have this. Can we use it on Tmo too?

Charles77

Buddy Beacon isn't currently available on T-Mobile, but I am sure the team at uLocate is working on that!

There is a list of carriers that offer WHERE and Buddy Beacon available at www.where.com/buddybeacon

Also, it seems like you don't have to ...
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Rich Brome

It is currently only available for carriers that happen to be CDMA. We thought that was curious enough to mention, though we're not sure it's related to any a technical issue.

T-Mobile doesn't offer any GPS phones nor network-based LBS that I know ...
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