Slick: "Oops, I'm Late!" GPS Auto-Alert App

[Rocco Augusto]

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/07-02-2007/0004619210&EDATE=

"Mobility Site points us to a press release for "Oops, I'm Late!." It's a Windows Mobile app that takes a look at your location via GPS, compares it to your appointment in Pocket Outlook, and then if things are going badly auto-sends an SMS message to attendees (or your secretary) letting them you know you're en-route but late. It's a little steep at $69.99 for the Standard and $99.99 for the Pro (the Pro lets you use email instead of SMS and also set a default contact rather than just the attendees)."

Talk about a neat application! I have wanted something like this for my Samsung Blackjack for a while now. This application gives me one more excuse to use in the battle in getting my fiancee to allow me to buy a Bluetooth GPS kit. I bet there are a few drawbacks to this system though, like not being able to make an excuse for showing up late to a very important meeting. :lol:

[Rocco Augusto]

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/07-02-2007/0004619210&EDATE=

"Mobility Site points us to a press release for "Oops, I'm Late!." It's a Windows Mobile app that takes a look at your location via GPS, compares it to your appointment in Pocket Outlook, and then if things are going badly auto-sends an SMS message to attendees (or your secretary) letting them you know you're en-route but late. It's a little steep at $69.99 for the Standard and $99.99 for the Pro (the Pro lets you use email instead of SMS and also set a default contact rather than just the attendees)."

Talk about a neat application! I have wanted something like this for my Samsung Blackjack for a while now. This application gives me one more excuse to use in the battle in getting my fiancee to allow me to buy a Bluetooth GPS kit. I bet there are a few drawbacks to this system though, like not being able to make an excuse for showing up late to a very important meeting. :lol:

[Sven]

Originally Posted by Rocco Augusto

[This application gives me one more excuse to use in the battle in getting my fiancee to allow me to buy a Bluetooth GPS kit.

Can you explain to me how a $70 piece of software is going to help you convince your wife to let you get a BT GPS which you can get for under $50?
http://www.semsons.com/glbtgpsrebt7.html :?:

[Mike Temporale]

$35 - Wow! That's a great deal.

But to answer you're question, the software provides something useful for the hardware. There's been little GPS software, IMHO for the Smartphone.

[Rocco Augusto]

She would be more willing to let me buy a gadget if she new I would be using it for more than my simple obsession of purchasing gadgets. Programs like this just make the hardware more useful.

[Sven]

Originally Posted by Rocco Augusto

She would be more willing to let me buy a gadget if she new I would be using it for more than my simple obsession of purchasing gadgets. Programs like this just make the hardware more useful.

I actually sort of figured that was your reasoning....

Gee, Honey, if you let me get this $35 gadget, I can add to it a $70 program that will send you an impersonal little SMS when I am going to be late for our lunch date. Well, yes Honey, I could just call you, but then you might hear the guys in the background and I'd have to lie about just forgetting about the time. You've always said I shouldn't lie to you. So this is really for you.

....let me know how that goes :wink:

[Mike Temporale]

:lol: well, when you put it like that...