Foursquare, a service mainly used by hipsters or people who don’t having anything spectacularly meaningful in their life and thus need to acquire emotional reinforcement from icons with funny captions created by previously said mentioned hipsters, has a native iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, and even Palm webOS application, but nothing for Symbian. That says a lot considering Symbian is the leader in the smartphone space, at least according to shipment volumes, and of course varying depending on what country you’re in. Nokia, being insulted due to getting no attention from anyone from anyone in Silicon Valley, took it upon themselves to write an application themselves and offer it to their users. That also says a lot, about Nokia, who want to devote engineering talent and resources to a tiny web service that has questionable usage benefits and will most likely be forgotten once people figure out how to update their location status in Facebook.
Anyway, with the application you’ll be able to do things like check your badges, check the locations that you’re the mayor of, look at suggestions from your fellow hipsters about interesting places around your current location, and more. Just check out the video above. It’ll be available for Symbian^3 devices, Symbian 5.0, and even old school 3.2 devices, so all you businessmen with a Nokia E72, trying to be cool to impress the ladies, will be able to check-in to the new singles bar in town and appear to be somewhat hip and relevant.
I kid, I kid. I’m sure there will eventually be a use for this type of location based service, but for now, whatever reason people give themselves for doing what they do with their badges and mayorships, totally flies over my head. Can someone please explain it to me? I’d like to be hip too.
Off to H&M on my fixie to get some more skinny jeans.
[Via: The Next Web]