Geodelic had the coolest location services app on T-Mobile’s popular Android phone. The Geodelic-based Sherpa app could help you discover what restaurants, coffee shops or other establishments were nearby, using an intuitive user interface.
Now the company is expanding to the iPhone and other Android phones. The app is available now in both the iTunes App Store and the Android Market now. The Sherpa Local Discovery App debuted earlier this year on T-Mobile’s myTouch 3G with Google phone. It is still one of the most popular apps and has surpassed 300,000 downloads and 100,000 monthly users. Those are decent numbers for the fledgling Android platform.
The free app has a carousel interface. You can use your finger to swipe a touch screen to spin the carousel to find out nearby restaurants or other places that are nearest to your location. The app learns your tastes and then makes future recommendations based on what it knows about you. It’s great when you’re in an unfamiliar place and don’t have time to plan where to go in advance.
Santa Monica, Calif.-based Geodelic plans to open its location-based publishing system, giving businesses a way to add their businesses to the database.
Rahul Sonnad, chief executive of Geodelic, was on my panel on Location-based Services at the Consumer Electronics Show on Saturday. He said that brands such as Best Buy and Universal Studios have begun using Geodelic to promote themselves to consumers based on geographic data.
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