After some development work from Nokia, location-based social network Foursquare has launched a Symbian application, complete with a home screen widget which displays the latest check-ins by your friends. Now Symbian users can check in to locales and share that spot with friends, as well as write up tips, line up to-dos, and create new venues where there weren’t any before.
For those uninitiated with the check-in craze, Foursquare uses your phone’s GPS to determine nearby locations (stores, restaurants, businesses, etc.), and allows you to virtually check-in at those places, as well as share said check-in to Facebook, Twitter, and other Foursquare friends. You can earn badges for checking-in in particular ways, or even become the “Mayor” of a business for checking-in most frequently there. Sometimes there are real-world discounts or perks, depending on the participation level of the business, but usually Mayorship is entirely superficial.
It looks like this has actually been available on Symbian since the end of September, and apparently the uptake has been pretty good so far. iPhone, BlackBerry, webOS and Android have had the app for quite awhile now, and now that Facebook Places is making the rounds, it’s hard not to worry how long it will be until that finally finds its way onto Symbian.
You can download Foursquare for Symbian here, or for any of the other major mobile platforms at the links below.
Download for BlackBerry (Free) [App World Link]
Download for iPhone (Free) [iTunes link]
Download for Android (Free) [Market Link]
Download for webOS (Free) [Catalog Link]
[via Foursquare]