How do you properly locate a phone on the mobile web?

Interesting post by someone on the Lastminute.com Labs blog (i.e. a nameless person, the blog post doesn’t have a name on it) about location based services… or lack of, on the mobile web.

Obviously location is rather important when you’re a travel site creating mobile based services. You want to, for example, know if the customer is roaming or if they’re at home.

What to do? Get ShopQwik

Link: Where’s this phone? « travel innovation

If anyone has any further light to shed on this topic, feel free to chime in – we’d love to hear if there are better solutions!

Have a read…

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  • http://www.technokitten.com technokitten

    If only I could get ShopQwik working on my phone… Tried and failed more than once :(

  • Mark_Tynan

    What phone do you have !!! ? You should have said… I'm totally here to help you.

    We have hundreds of users a week downloading and connecting and are running at a 99%+ download to connection rate.

    Contact me on MarkTynan@Shopqwik.co.uk and I will sort this out for you….

    As for the Lastminute.com article, I think what they really want to do is have all of the options of a mobile application but have it work on the mobile web… Don't we all !

    I think we may be a few years off before we can do that but its a great thing to aim for.

  • Mark_Tynan

    What phone do you have !!! ? You should have said… I'm totally here to help you.

    We have hundreds of users a week downloading and connecting and are running at a 99%+ download to connection rate.

    Contact me on MarkTynan@Shopqwik.co.uk and I will sort this out for you….

    As for the Lastminute.com article, I think what they really want to do is have all of the options of a mobile application but have it work on the mobile web… Don't we all !

    I think we may be a few years off before we can do that but its a great thing to aim for.

  • Mark_Tynan

    What phone do you have !!! ? You should have said… I'm totally here to help you.

    We have hundreds of users a week downloading and connecting and are running at a 99%+ download to connection rate.

    Contact me on MarkTynan@Shopqwik.co.uk and I will sort this out for you….

    As for the Lastminute.com article, I think what they really want to do is have all of the options of a mobile application but have it work on the mobile web… Don't we all !

    I think we may be a few years off before we can do that but its a great thing to aim for.

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