In the last two years, more and more services for ocation-sharing have been showing up, i.e., sharing one’s own palce with others. Not exactly surprising, but the question “Where are you?” is apparently the most commonly asked in mobile calls. Services such as Gowalla, Four Square, or even Facebook provide Places but only the so-called Check of a site, but not the delivery location in real time as is the case with Glympse. Glympse is currently available for iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile smartphones. Whether other platforms such as BlackBerry, Symbian or Windows Phone 7 will get support in the future is not yet known.
Android App: Runs as a background process and does not have to be running constantly. Even in standby mode it will continue to transmit the location, which of course is via mobile data connection and a mobile data plan for the sustainable use of Glympse certainly makes it necessary. Even in terms of battery consumption Glympse is squeamish, so my HTC Hero went to sleep after 4 hours of permanent location-mediation.
iPhone App: Works with iOS 4 in the background. It does the transmission in real time, but you have the right top of the App activate a type of lock. Obtained during Glympse runs a call, the location transmission is interrupted and you have to manually start the app again. As with the Android App, Glympse for iPhone uses a lot of battery power, so a car charger cord is recommended.
Windows Mobile App: Unlike the iPhone Apps for Android, which use both Google Maps that uses Windows Mobile App as a card service (as it should be different on a Microsoft device) Bing. The presentation of the card and loading time is significantly slower than the other two devices and therefore acts slow when the data connection is not smooth.
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