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SameCell offers free proximity detection between BlackBerry users
Miblackberry just spotted a pretty sweet service by the name of SameCell, which recognizes which cellular tower you’re using, and identifies whether specified friends (pulled from your existing address book) are on the same one. If they are, you get a quick e-mail alert to let you know that your contact is nearby. Stuff like this is great, since it breaks the mould of location-based services equating to GPS hardware. Given, you won’t get the same precision as GPS, SameCell is completely free while it’s running its noble beta course. Sometimes just knowing your buddies are in the neighbourhood is good enough. Right now the software is only for BlackBerry, but compatibility for Windows Mobile and other smartphones is in the works.
Posted by Simon Sage in News
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September 12th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
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September 17th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
[…] of streaming video on BlackBerry. Then we take a turn to location-based services, talking about SameCell, the free proximity detection service. To cap it all off, we get a full run-down of the upcoming […]
November 28th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
[…] 2.0, and the big new feature is cell-tower triangulation to find your location. Sounds a bit like SameCell, huh? Of course, if you have GPS integrated in your handheld, Google Maps can read that too. […]
January 21st, 2008 at 10:09 am
[…] that Google’s doing cell tower proximity detection too, but SameCell has come out of their beta program, and is now offering applications for Facebook and the iPhone. The BlackBerry application now lets […]
