10th July 2008

Rejected

Acting on Aaron’s endorsement of Loopt, I went to check it out and sign up.  Just judging from the front page it looks like the kind of service I had hoped Twitter could be.

Connect with friends and get alerted when they are nearby

Yes, that’s what I’d like.

I fill out the form with my demographic info and hit submit.

Loopt now asks me to identify my phone:

Oh, hmm. I don’t have a Blackberry or iPhone, much to my dismay.  Well, that seems okay. There’s a helpful “Can’t find your phone?” link below this if one of the displayed models is not yours. My hopes are high because over to the right they illustrate how phones can look different when the colors vary by displaying a flower of Razrs, which is my phone.

But when I click on that helpful link:

It’s overused but I’m going to say it anyway: Fail.

posted by: Ang on Thursday, July 10th, 2008 at 7:17 pm. | tagged: , .

Comments

Aliecat says...

I was talking with Aaron about this tonight, as I was interested and have a Blackjack (basically a bastardized Blackberry). Very disappointed it’s not available for Windows enabled phones.


comment made: July 10, 2008, 8:42 pm | +


Moe says...

That’s too bad. I have just a simple LG phone with Sprint (LG Musiq) and it works on my phone. The app is kinda cool if enough people have it.


comment made: July 11, 2008, 5:25 am | +


Ang says...

And I just put off my plan to buy an iPhone until next year. Sad.


comment made: July 11, 2008, 6:46 am | +


Erica says...

It doesn’t support my Blackberry, either (Pearl 8130). Pffffft.


comment made: July 11, 2008, 10:18 am | +


Ang says...

Erica, that’s insane. So it only supports some Blackberry models? How does that make any sense?

Okay, they’re new, perhaps they’ll expand.


comment made: July 11, 2008, 10:44 pm | +


Aaron Landry - iPhone Mobile Social Networking Applications says...

[...] one mobile social networking application you should get for your iPhone. Or Blackberry, even. (It humorously shows the Motorola Razr on the site but it actually isn’t [...]


comment made: July 12, 2008, 7:13 pm | +


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