Loopt Now Available in the Android Market
social mapping and communication service, announced that its service is
launching today to consumers through the Android Market, Google’s new mobile
application store.
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Loopt users can share their location between carrier networks with fellow
Loopt users on AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, Boost, MetroPCS and T-Mobile. Loopt is
currently supported on more than 100 handsets including the iPhone and
BlackBerry and is now available on select phones with the Android Market.
Android is an open and compressive mobile operating platform developed by an
alliance of leading technology and wireless companies including Google Inc.,
T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm, Motorola and many others.
The Loopt experience in the Android Market offers all the core Loopt
features including background location updating which enables users to receive
alerts when a friend is nearby. Users can also switch between map modes for a
satellite view of their friend map or to monitor traffic delays. Beyond
sharing their location and status information with friends via phones, Loopt
users can also easily share their information with popular Web services such
as Facebook(R), MySpace(R) and Twitter or personal blogs and Web sites.
“From the start, our goal has been to build a ubiquitous interoperable
network in which customers don’t have to worry about who has what provider or
mobile device,” said
combined with a commitment to delivering compelling consumer location services
and effective privacy standards.”
Loopt is available for free in
beginning today. For more information about Loopt please visit
http://www.loopt.com.
About Loopt
Loopt, based in Silicon-Valley and backed by leading venture capital firms
Sequoia Capital and New Enterprise Associates, has created a truly
interoperable and accessible social-mapping service that is available across
multiple carrier networks and supported on over 100 mobile devices. Leveraging
the latest location technology, Loopt changes the way people connect, share
and explore in the real world. Loopt was designed with privacy considerations
at its core and offers a variety of effective and easy-to-use privacy controls
for subscribers. Loopt works with leading mobile, social networking, and
online privacy and security organizations such as the Family Online Safety
Institute, Future of Privacy Forum, Connect Safely, Congressional Internet
Caucus Advisory Committee, Progress & Freedom Foundation’s Center for Digital
Media Freedom, and the Internet Safety Technical Task Force. For more
information, please visit http://www.loopt.com.
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