Imagine that you went to walk off somewhere in a public place in your city. Service "Round" will add interest in this pastime. The free app "Around" by Sonetica company is a mix of geolocation social service and mobile messenger. That is, you can see who is currently close to you, and then write to that person in a comfortable chat. So you can not only communicate with their friends, but also to meet new people.
For an application to determine where you are, you do not need Chekina as in the Foursquare, the service automatically determines your location, which is updated at intervals you specify, but more on that a little later.
To register for the service you will need to enter your phone number to which the code will come, then you need to install some configuration profile.
"Female" half amused me :)
All registration is passed, you can now see who is around. For each person specified on the distance from you it is, and the last positioning.
The first number on my list was a consultant on cosmetics, which we communicated pretty tight for a while. Now I have a keen interest. Always entertaining, when like that happened to be old friends. User photos can be zoomed and see, but only after you upload your avatar. This can be done in the profile settings. There's also configurable refresh rate of your location (ie, what I said at the beginning).
You can specify a type (fun, fashionable) and the profession. Since then, when it is displayed in your profile, type and profession not be separated by any punctuation marks, it turns out funny: fashionable businessman, angry slacker. And, you can specify the brand and its license plate number and meet in a traffic jam. Well, it is true!
Each participant who is already registered in the application, you can invite a friend or just to have a conversation with him. Those who allowed it, you can see the location on the map. While people in the application is not enough, so invite your friends via SMS or e-mail.
Your location can share the in Facebook or in VKontakte. It is strange that there is no possibility rassharivaniya on Twitter.
Recently IPhone app "Around" has been updated to version 2.0, which adds the ability VoIP-call. Now, the application can call your friends for free and chat non-stop.
There are versions of "around" for the iPhone and Android. In the coming days will be a version for Symbian.
Download in App Store:Around
Price: is free
System requirements: iOS 4.0 and higher
Official site:Around