Home › News ›

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.

Related

Samsung Refines its Foldable Phones

Aug 10, 2022
Samsung has announced its newest generation of foldable phones: the Galaxy Z Fold4 and Galaxy Z Flip4. Both have similar designs and features compared to their predecessors, with a slew of small updates and refinements across the board.

iPhone 14 Plus Offers a Big Screen For Less

Sep 7, 2022
Apple has revealed the iPhone 14 series, with new features, improved specs, and new size options. In place of a Mini option, the iPhone 14 will come in the same 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch screen size options as the Pro models.

iPhone 15 Series Goes All-In on USB-C and Dynamic Island

Sep 12, 2023
Apple has revealed the iPhone 15 series, which moves to a USB-C connector and brings several key features from last year's Pro models to the more-affordable standard models. These include the pill-shaped sensor cutout in the display that Apple calls Dynamic Island, a brighter display that can reach 2000 nits, a 48 megapixel main camera, and the A16 Bionic processor chip.

Apple Watch Goes Ultra

Sep 7, 2022
Apple has refreshed its Apple Watch lineup with Series 8, a new Watch SE, and added a larger, more rugged Apple Watch Ultra for athletes and extreme adventurers. Apple Watch Series 8 has two main upgrades over Series 7: temperature sensors and Crash Detection.

Samsung Puts its Best Camera Yet in the Galaxy S23 Ultra

Feb 1, 2023
Samsung has officially unveiled its new flagship phones for 2023: the Galaxy S23 series. The S23 and S23+ have modest upgrades over last year's models, while the S23 Ultra has a significantly upgraded main camera.

Comments

This forum is closed.

This forum is closed.

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 ...
(continues)

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 ...
(continues)

...

Page 1 of 1