Ask Mobile GPS: The Next Level of Local

Got a GPS-enabled Sprint phone? You lucky devils. Odds are that means you can get Ask Mobile GPS.

Ask Mobile GPS is the first interactive, GPS-enabled application that not only puts the best of Ask.com, Citysearch and Evite on your phone, but adds GPS to give your phone the kind of power and connectivity you'd expect from your computer. Predictive text and automatic suggestions make sure you get what you want with the fewest keystrokes possible.

Here's a mobile app that genuinely makes your life easier when you're away from home. Ask Mobile GPS is a genuine extension of everything you'd want a phone or a PDA to do. If you've been looking for a true "lifestyle application" (whether or not you'd ever use that term in public) for your mobile phone, well, you've found it.

Here, in brief, is what Ask Mobile GPS offers:

Share My Location

 

 

 

You can use Ask Mobile GPS to broadcast your location to anyone in your phone's address book. Don't know your location? No problem--Ask Mobile GPS does. Friend doesn't have Sprint? Also no problem. You can send them an SMS with a link to a map and driving directions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Directions

 

 

 

A simple name for a powerful service, Directions gives you audible driving (or walking) directions in real-time. It's a complete turn-by-turn navigation system that talks to you, so you can keep your eyes on the road. Navigate to restaurants, airports, and more. You can even save destinations to create your own personalized list of directions to favorite places.

Citysearch

 

 

 

Just what the title says: It's Citysearch on your phone. Find top-rated businesses closest to you, and read editorial and user reviews right from your phone. Plus, the GPS function will recommend other places, other neighborhoods, other possibilities, all near your current location.

My Evites

 

 

 

View your Evite invitations while you're out and about. Find out where the party is and who is going to be there. You'll never again have to print out directions to an Evite event!

Saved Places

 

 

 

Save your home address and any other favorite places, giving you instant shortcuts to your most used addresses.

Find out more about the service--including which Sprint phones support it and how to get started--at gps.ask.com. Expect to hear a lot more about this service in the coming days and weeks. And feel free to comment on it below!

--The Ask Mobile Team