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Sprint brings automatic LBS to its handset lineup

Posted by Joshua Karp on Sep 21, 2007 10:16 am 5 comments
Filed in CDMA, Software, Sprint

Sprint, you never fail to surprise us. The most yellow wireless provider in all the land has announced that beginning next Tuesday, all phone based internet searches will automatically take the handset’s geographic location into account. The location will be tabulated by way of cell tower triangulation, and provide location-based search results to Sprint subscribers. The service relies on a relationship between Sprint and Microsoft that provides Windows Live search bars integrated into most of Sprint’s mobile browsers. Sadly, this service isn’t available for Windows Mobile based devices, so you crazy HTC Mogul owners are out of luck. Anyone with a run-of-the-mill Sprint handset looking for a bit of LBS action should be good to go come next week. Excited? We knew you would be.

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5 comment(s) for this post.

  1. On Sep 21, 2007 @ 10:42 am, rosegold Said:

    actually it is available for wm6

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  2. On Sep 21, 2007 @ 11:36 am, Tuesday Night Tech Staff Said:

    Will AT&T ever have this for the iPhone? This is a great idea and we talked about this on a recent Tuesday Night Tech show if I remember correctly.

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  3. On Sep 21, 2007 @ 1:29 pm, Colin J Said:

    Have it on my a900 already… for a week now.

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  4. On Sep 21, 2007 @ 3:03 pm, Nino Said:

    if you say it works for wm6 ill have to look it up and find it as I have a mogul.

    Nino

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  5. On Sep 22, 2007 @ 5:06 am, learner Said:

    does any one has idea about the charge for searching?

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