If you’ve ever struggled to figure out if your spouse is on the way home from work or if the kids got picked up from school or where the kids are hanging out today, a new app called Neer may help you sort it all out.
Qualcomm Services Labs, Inc. has released a new app called Neer this week, dubbed as “the world’s first-of-its-kind location-sharing app” to help keep you in touch with family and friends “without lifting a finger or having to answer your phone.” The free app is currently only for the iPhone 4 and fourth-generation iPod touch during its beta period.
“Neer is the must-have, mobile phone location-based service designed with today’s modern family in mind,” the app description reads. “Neer offers trusted and automatic location sharing to answer those simple, everyday family questions: ‘Have you left work yet?’ ‘Did the kids get picked up?’ ‘Did you stop at the grocery store on your way home?’ Neer saves you time by automatically providing answers in a secure, intuitive, and fun-to-use app.”
The app works by defining locations in advance, such as Home, Office, School or Grocery Store. As your iOS device-carrying family members move around, you can quickly and easily see where they’re at throughout the day, thanks to GPS technology. Qualcomm claims that Neer “uses all the features of your smartphone to dynamically sense your location, eliminating the phone calls or text messages needed to synchronize the day.”
Neer is a free 1.9MB download from the App Store and requires an iPhone 4 or fourth-generation iPod touch with iOS 4.1 or later during the beta period; a version for Android is also available for cross-platform families.
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