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| Developer(s) | Tweakersoft |
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| Operating system | iPhone OS |
| Type | Local search (Internet) |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | www.tweakersoft.com |
AroundMe is a popular iPhone OS application that allows users to quickly find nearby Point Of Interest (POI) such as restaurants, hotels, theaters, parking, hospitals and much more. In 2008 AroundMe was given the second place in the top 10 iPhone OS apps [1] by Time.
AroundMe was the first mobile application for the iPhone OS to use the Google’s location-aware API and also was the first mobile application to make use of Google dynamic mobile advertisement. As of March 2009 over 5 million copies of AroundMe have been downloaded and installed.
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[edit] Description
AroundMe uses the iPhone's navigation capabilities to perform location-aware searches. T
A ‘Favorites’ allows the user save specific entries while the category 'nearby' is used to identify nearby cities, parks, geographical locations, airports and attractions which are linked to appropriate Wikipedia entries.
AroundMe is currently localized in the following languages:
- English
- French
- German
- Portuguese
- Swedish
- Japanese
- Italian
- Russian
- Spanish
- Dutch
[edit] Major events
- September 2008 AroundMe first launched
[edit] References
2 Josh Quitner The top 10 iPhone Apps [2] Time magazine
3 Mel Martin AroundMe updates, improves [3] Tuaw iPhone
[edit] External links
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