InfoSpace Find It!
I was lucky enough to get a sneak peak at some mobile software by InfoSpace from one of my sources. It’s called Find It!, and I installed it on my BlackBerry 8800. Best of all it will be free when released towards the middle of next month. What’s really great is this app basically combines the need for many search and informational programs like, Google Maps, Berry 411, into one clean, easy to use program. Well, except for one thing, it finds your location by utilizing the built-in GPS. Awesome! The way it was designed has some great features for instance, let’s say your on vacation and search for a movie theatre. The nearest movie theatres pop up, but you don’t have any cash on you, no problem. You click ATM and it finds the nearest ATMs closest to the theatre because your going to be there anyway, right? You want to go out to dinner after the movie, click your favorite style of food and all nearest restaurants will pop up. If you want to Browse by Category, you can choose from six category options, including Dine Out, Go Out, Shop, Travel, Health and Services. Each category lists relevant local merchants or information, ranked by proximity to your current location. You can also quickly and easily find the fastest way from say, point A to point B with Maps & Directions. Find It! even give you voice guidance for directions. The voice directions are not locally stored on the device but I believe they are cached after you request them. Will report back on that feature. All in all I have to say, this could be my favorite BlackBerry application. It just makes the device so much more useful. Depending on the level of interest I might post the download link, don’t want to upset anyone, but this is BGR afterall right? Now if InfoSpace would just give me some stock…i’d really show some interest in this! Click on for a walkthough of the application.
UPDATE: Ok guys, you didn’t have to start emailing me, I was going to post the link anyway. Just wanted to have a little fun. Here is the download link for Find It! Visit it from your BlackBerry to download it OTA at http://bb.infospace.com/b
Jonathan S. Geller
Jonathan Geller is the founder of Boy Genius Report, now known as BGR. What began as a column on popular gadget blog Engadget quickly grew into one of the site’s biggest draws, and Jonathan soon detached the wildly popular column to create what has since become the biggest mobile news destination in the world.
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