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Electric Pocket, of Smartphone fame for the popular ringtone manager Ringo has just released a cool application for Windows Mobile and Blackberry phones. Findme lets users share their current locations automagically and securely with their smartphone WITHOUT the need for GPS. You can then “tag” your location with home, work, school, etc and it will automatically update your Facebook profile with your location.

According to their website: “You are in complete control of what your friends see – “At home”, “In the Office”, “Playing Soccer”, “Walking the dog”, etc. If you haven’t named a place your position will just show up as “Unknown” – and you can always “Go Dark” if you dont want to be seen.  If you want, you can add additional location information like zip or post code to a favourite place so FindMe can show your friends a map or directions to where you are.”

There really isn’t much to say on it as the program itself is pretty basic. In a nutshell, what you do is install a tiny application on your Windows Mobile device. This application grabs information about the cell tower that you are connected to and allows you to assign a tag to that location. Then the application uploads your current location to Facebook which in turn allows all of your friends to see where you are. The only downside of this application that I can see is it will make a bit harder to hide from those individuals that you do not want to hang out with.

FindMe works with all Mobile phones. It does not require GPS or additional hardware. Automatic operation is currently available for BlackBerry and Windows Mobile Smartphones and in progress for Symbian and Palm OS. If you’re a Facebook addict then check out FindMe by hitting up the download to play around with this simple, yet fun, program. 

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