Where
The “Where” Palm Pre app is a GPS enabled location-aware application that helps you find businesses close by. It’s a wildly popular app available on most major smartphones and it’s the first application on the Palm Pre that really brings a good places directory with it along with integration with Yelp (excellent for viewing user reviews of establishments). The home screen of the app presents you with a set of categories including Movies, Starbucks, Traffic, News, etc. Digging deeper takes you into more detailed information about each category that is relevant to your current location.
The information is often very detailed. The movies section, for example, will automatically pull up theater locations close to you, showtimes, movie reviews, and trailers right within the app. This is one of the best and most widely used location-aware places directory in the mobile market today, and it’s great to see it on the Palm Pre. I have no doubt you’ll be able to pick from a plethora of such apps soon, but this is a great start.
Tags: directory, gps, location
I’m getting weird / unsorted search results using Where / Yellow Pages. The good news is that it returns several locations when I search, but it never shows the closet location first – they’re all mixed together – far, close, medium, closer, far, etc.
Is this happening for anyone else?
No, I am not having that problem. Have you updated Where to the latest version?
New Issue:
Contacts added to the phone from the Where yp.com function do not sync to Google contacts. Other contacts added manually to the phone do sync to Google contacts.
Is this app better than Live Search on the Instinct?
yes it is Jay
i just wonder why it doesn’t say “free” anywhere?