Palm and Yelp partner on local mobile search for Treo
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We mention this because Yelp has profiled lots of San Francisco Bay Area locales, and this can be helpful for on-the-go yuppies with Treos. We tried it out, and it worked easily and simply in Fremont, when we were looking for pizza this evening.
We went to Yelp Mobile (http://mobile.yelp.com) on our Treo 650 phone, put in our city and zip code, and chose pizza. First on the resulting list was Mission Pizza -- because it has thirteen raving reviews, and thus is the favored place in the region. Clearly marked, after the star-rating (1-5), number of reviews, address and phone number, was the mileage. Mission Pizza is 1.88 miles away, and isn't the closest. We zipped down and list, and the next pizza place is only a half mile away, but doesn't have great reviews.
We were happy with this ordering. There's also a link to maps, which came up easily and without hitches.
Nice execution.
http://www.siliconbeat.com/cgi-bin/mt331/mt-tb.cgi/1869
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Tried it on my TREO and it works like a charm! Probably going to save me from picking a bad place when I'm traveling. Nice tip!
Miss Megan on August 9, 2006 4:53 PMComment link
Worked great when I tried Indian in Mtn View. Then I tried Indian in Westport, CT and it said I was only .8 miles away from the closest spot. Not sure what it is using as the location of my phone, but it does not seem to be working too well.
Huh? on August 9, 2006 9:50 PMComment link
I was wondering if there is such a thing as a wifi card that I can use on my tro 650.
Thanks,
W.
wade on August 15, 2006 12:16 PMComment link
