Rejected
July 10, 2008
Acting on Aaron’s endorsement of Loopt, I went to check it out and sign up. Just judging from the front page it looks like the kind of service I had hoped Twitter could be.
Connect with friends and get alerted when they are nearby
Yes, that’s what I’d like.
I fill out the form with my demographic info and hit submit.
Loopt now asks me to identify my phone:
Oh, hmm. I don’t have a Blackberry or iPhone, much to my dismay. Well, that seems okay. There’s a helpful “Can’t find your phone?” link below this if one of the displayed models is not yours. My hopes are high because over to the right they illustrate how phones can look different when the colors vary by displaying a flower of Razrs, which is my phone.
But when I click on that helpful link:
It’s overused but I’m going to say it anyway: Fail.
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Aliecat | July 10, 2008 at 8:42 pm
I was talking with Aaron about this tonight, as I was interested and have a Blackjack (basically a bastardized Blackberry). Very disappointed it’s not available for Windows enabled phones.
2.
Moe | July 11, 2008 at 5:25 am
That’s too bad. I have just a simple LG phone with Sprint (LG Musiq) and it works on my phone. The app is kinda cool if enough people have it.
3.
Ang | July 11, 2008 at 6:46 am
And I just put off my plan to buy an iPhone until next year. Sad.
4.
Erica | July 11, 2008 at 10:18 am
It doesn’t support my Blackberry, either (Pearl 8130). Pffffft.
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Ang | July 11, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Erica, that’s insane. So it only supports some Blackberry models? How does that make any sense?
Okay, they’re new, perhaps they’ll expand.
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