Mobile Content
Location-based Services
Location-based services, such as maps and directions, are well-suited
for use with mobile phones because your location is often new or always
changing. Get local road directions or conditions, local retail store
information, and other location-specific information.
Some of the services or information below require some software to be
first downloaded to your mobile device. Some services require a GPS-enabled
mobile device. Use the mobile Web addresses below on your cell phone.
- Earthcomber – Ultimate
Personal Navigator lets you lookup nearby spots, such as ATMs, restaurants,
bars, historical places, WiFi hotspots, stores, theaters and gas stations.
- Google Maps for Mobile –
View highway maps with "live" traffic data. Available for 30 U.S. cities.
To download, visit http://www.google.com/gmm from cell phone Web browser.
- KMaps (uLocate Place Locator)
– Subscribers can lookup information on local places, such as
restaurants, hotels, gas stations and ATM machines. For Treo phones.
- MapQuest Mobile –
Subscribe to a premium downloadable application for Java or BREW phone,
or use a free service for a Web-enabled phone.
- Mobile GMaps – Free application
displays Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Windows Live Local (MSN Virtual Earth)
and Ask.com Maps and satellite imagery on Java-enabled mobile devices.
- Nextel
GPS Solutions – Remotely locate, track and manage employees
and assets.
- SearchQuest – GPS
search, map and navigation application for PDAs and smartphones.
- Sprint
Roadside Rescue – Provides roadside assistance and driving
directions to subscribers.
Note – There are two markup languages used to design mobile
Web pages and referenced above. Your mobile phone browser may or may not
support them:
- HDML (Handheld Device Markup Language) – is Openwave's
proprietary Web markup language. HDML pages can only be viewed on Web-enabled
mobile phones that use an Openwave browser. HDML was developed before
WAP. It uses Openwave's Handheld Device Transport Protocol (HDTP) instead
of WAP.
- WML (Wireless Markup Language) – is an open Web markup
language developed by Openwave and based on HDML. WML pages can be viewed
on any mobile device that supports WAP. WML is supported by almost every
mobile phone browser around the world.
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