A typical mobile phone contains a whole bunch of communication information which tells the mobile phone what network operator your mobile phone is connected with, and how to optimize your mobile signal in order to ascertain the best signal strength. You can usually access all this information by typing in a special character combination on your mobile phone which will take you to the engineering information screen.

Locle is a mobile application that allows you to see where your contacts are without using GPS. It’s a new service, with very little information on the company’s website. Here’s the complete description of the service that you’ll find on the company’s website:

Locify is a location-based service that allows anyone with a supported phone to explore places of interest from “Wikipedia, seek for geocaches, display map where you are (or you want to go), twitter you location, save interesting places from phone or web sync them and even navigate to them”.

Boaters and Sailors now have their own mobile social network that allows them to interact and share content in very much the same manner that members of other social networks do. The new social network also has its own Internet TV channel on the Moqulus Internet TV network.

Locago makes it possible to browse your favorite Internet content on map, via an easy to use interface, which “presents a clear picture of your surroundings, automatically activating the GPS and directions when needed. Locago is free and has an open API, enabling developers to “create and deploy advanced location-based services on a wide range of mobile devices”.

weNear is a new application for mobile devices that, using your current location, is able to identify other weNear users that were marked as friends, and locate them on the map. Friends will be able to reach each other more easily even with no former meeting plans (yet you can choose to keep your location private whenever you want.)

Mobile location-based services (LBS) inform us, but the services they deliver aren’t necessarily location-aware. In other words, they can’t make sense out of what the information that they deliver means to the user or recipient of that information. Most LBS information is pretty static.

ZInfo is an information sharing platform based on your contacts and location. It keeps you up-to-date with the contacts information, locations, routes, local information and web 2.0 services information like web pages, images that your friends are sharing. Besides, all information above is location based.

Overview:
MinMap (eAndroidMap) is a Location Based System (LBS) application, designed to help you discover by yourself about a specific city, a town or a place you want to visit, or are visiting. Basically this application provides some core functions like a GIS application such as finding a place, finding a POI, managing your favorites. This [...]

NavXS (NAVigation eXchange Service) is a social geocoding service that enables users to exchange and share location information with their friends and contacts. With NavXS, you can keep track of your contacts movement relative to yours - in real time, and the service comes with a Web-based user interface that enables users to track their [...]

Bancomap is a very simple application that shows a list of Automated Teller Machine (atm) kiosks close to an address. Clicking an item in the list brings up an atm on a map. Only Italian addresses are supported at this time. A couple of screen shots from the project.

The first Android devices are still months away, but we are starting to see the first Android applications and the capabilities they will bring to Android devices. And the signs are good. A startup company in California, USA, has launched a beta version of a local search engine for Android devices.It enables you to [...]