Gears from Google goes Live with Rummble.

August 22, 2008 – 9:03 am

Google Gears for Windows Mobile launches today and Rummble is excited to be a launch partner with Google. Gears represents and exciting next step in the evolution of the mobile internet. It will eventually give mobile developers access to all the really useful functionality of mobile handsets which cant currently be utilised from mobile phone web browsers – including camera, file system, address book, etc.

Gears launches on Windows Mobile with Googles superb Location API, which delivers Rummble users automated location detection on any modern Windows Mobile device – even if the handset itself doesn’t have GPS. Using the same magic which sits behind Googles really useful My Location maps service on mobile, the Location API uses CellID and other technology to detect where the user is and communicates that to Rummble.

Until now, there was no sensible way to get automated location updates from within the mobile browser. Gears solves that problem. As Google releases more APIs into the Gears platform, we’ll be adding these to the Rummble mobile website functionality.

Gears will be launched on other major mobile platforms in the future and Rummble will be supporting them, so watch this space!

NB: Rummble for Windows Mobile uses version 1.5 of our Rummble mobile site, which sports a brand new interface and UI, more along the lines of our soon to launch Rummble iphone application; we’ll be hoping to roll out this version to other versions of the mobile website, asap.

You can go to m.rummble.com and click on the “Update location with Gears” on the homepage to see the Rummbles nearest you.

  1. One Response to “Gears from Google goes Live with Rummble.”

  2. At the beginning, Google Geolocation API has determined the location for only Americans, for the other it has returned “unknown”. Later this service was advanced, but it often does not show results even for developed countries as yet. For such cases, there is a simple javascript extension to the Google API, which gives back the country of user.

    http://www.wipmania.com/en/blog/google-geolocation-api/

    By Andreas on Oct 7, 2008

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