Glympse is a free-of-cost web service using which
you can share your location in real-time with people you choose. You can
send a notification called a “glympse” via email, SMS, Facebook or
Twitter to the recipient(s). The app has won a few awards and was
recently integrated into Garmin’s Navigon software and Ford's smart
cars. The powerful app has numerous possibilities of use. Glympse is supported on Android, iOS, BlackBerry and Windows Phone.
Features and usability
Once you install the app, you are good to go. There are no sign ups and no profiles to be created. Pick the recipient, set the timer for your estimated time of arrival, add a message and choose your destination.The recipients will get a glympse containing a link to your location in real time marked on a Google map, along with the message. The recipient need not install Glympse to view this information. All he or she needs is a device connected to the Internet. You can make your location public or share it with one or more people or with a group. You can share your location using Facebook, Twitter and other apps that you may have installed on your phone. The glympse stays live until the timer expires. After that, your location can no longer be viewed. So you can share your location for zero seconds, which would be just a check-in, or share it till your journey ends. The longest duration for which the timer can be set is four hours.
Verdict
If you are a parent of a teen learning to drive, or an overbearing spouse, you could use it to watch the trail of your near ones, every step of the way. Business users could send a courtesy notice embedded in a glympse to their co-workers or customers to indicate their ETA. Using group glympses, you could find your friends after you have fanned out inside an amusement park. If you are running late for an event, you could send a glympse to everyone who needs to know your location and time of arrival so that you don’t have to inform them all separately about these details. You could even use Glympse as a personal safety app, sharing your location with loved ones or emergency response services. This is a versatile app, which can be used in as many ways as its users can think of. All they need to do is take a battery pack along.
Download Glympse for Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7.
Source:- http://tech2.in.com/reviews/web-apps/glympse-review/749652
Features and usability
Once you install the app, you are good to go. There are no sign ups and no profiles to be created. Pick the recipient, set the timer for your estimated time of arrival, add a message and choose your destination.The recipients will get a glympse containing a link to your location in real time marked on a Google map, along with the message. The recipient need not install Glympse to view this information. All he or she needs is a device connected to the Internet. You can make your location public or share it with one or more people or with a group. You can share your location using Facebook, Twitter and other apps that you may have installed on your phone. The glympse stays live until the timer expires. After that, your location can no longer be viewed. So you can share your location for zero seconds, which would be just a check-in, or share it till your journey ends. The longest duration for which the timer can be set is four hours.
Verdict
If you are a parent of a teen learning to drive, or an overbearing spouse, you could use it to watch the trail of your near ones, every step of the way. Business users could send a courtesy notice embedded in a glympse to their co-workers or customers to indicate their ETA. Using group glympses, you could find your friends after you have fanned out inside an amusement park. If you are running late for an event, you could send a glympse to everyone who needs to know your location and time of arrival so that you don’t have to inform them all separately about these details. You could even use Glympse as a personal safety app, sharing your location with loved ones or emergency response services. This is a versatile app, which can be used in as many ways as its users can think of. All they need to do is take a battery pack along.
Download Glympse for Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7.
Source:- http://tech2.in.com/reviews/web-apps/glympse-review/749652
