No, this is not a joke. During the BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco, the Loopt app for BlackBerry was demoed and brings some features to the table that — gasp! — best the iPhone’s version of Loopt! Stop laughing. We are serious! OK, so what features? The location based friend-tracking service will enable location updates running in the background (so you don’t have to have the app open to keep track of where your friends and contacts may be) .
The updated BlackBerry app will also take full advantage of the new “Pulse” suggestions feature for BlackBerry devices, where you can receive recommendation notifications of places or events based on your location — again, through background processing. So you can be listening to music, answering emails, playing games, surfing the web and still know when your friends or colleages are close so you can coordinate an impromptu get together. Right now, that level of background processing is something you just can’t do with the iPhone (you have to be running the app on the iPhone to get any location based info on your friends or for businesses). With Loopt’s coupon support, the BlackBerry app can also serve you up with discounts for those businesses or restaurants nearby. The price for all of this functionality? FREE.
Get Loopt for BlackBerry Here.
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