New! Direct Download for LifeInPocket – Turn by Turn Navigation
Updated 22-Apr-2010: Until recently, the only way to get Life in Pocket was to visit the LifeInPocket.com PC site and to register and then push the app to your Boost or Nextel phone. The PC site is Flash based and doesn’t work with mobile browsers, so users without a PC were out of luck. Now Life in Pocket has made their LIPsignup app available for direct download from a mobile friendly page at lifeinpocket.com/s.html.
The direct download doesn’t work with iDEN phones but it did make it possible for me to add to to BoostApps where Boost iDEN and Nextel USA users can send it to their phones using the Send to Phone button below.
Note that the LIPsignup app is just a small 33KB loader that lets you register for the service. When you register be sure to choose the right carrier (Boost or Nextel) and enter your mobile number correctly as 10 digits with no leading “1”. When you finish registering, exit the signup app and go to Download Apps again and you will see a new “LIP_056” download – which is the actual 736 KB Life In Pocket App.
LifeInPocket is the only free GPS aware turn by turn navigation app with voice guidance I’ve found that runs on the Motorola iDEN phones. It actually does a lot more than just navigation including free messaging with other LifeInPocket users, a friend and family locator, address book and text note synchronization, calendar, task manager, weather forecasts and a news reader.
LifeInPocket tries to do too much, in my opinion. It’s a huge app, consuming over a megabyte of precious space on the handset. Navigating the menus is confusing and the LifeInPocket website is worse. Fortunately the core navigation feature works really well, with loud, clear and timely voice prompts. There’s no reason to pay $9.95/month for BoostNavigator or Sprint Navigation when LifeInPocket does the same thing for free.
Type: Freeware
Author: Roadcomm
Data Connection Required: Yes
Supported iDEN phones: All Falcon Series with Java (i776, i465, i9, i290, etc.)
Does NOT work on Boost CDMA phones like the Incognito, Juno, Seek or Factor.
File Size: 736 KB
Downloading uses paid data. Downloads are for Java ME phones only.
To download and install click here: DOWNLOAD (jad)
how do we get it there is no send to my phone button
From the post:
“You will notice that there is no “Send to Phone” button below. That’s because LifeInPocket doesn’t make the installation files available directly to users. But they do offer their own send to phone function that works just like BoostApps to send LifeInPocket directly to “Download Apps” on your phone.
I download it to my i856, it works great. Thanks it doesnt take a genius to figure out how to use it. Lol it works great. Thanks denis
“You will notice that there is no “Send to Phone” button below. That’s because LifeInPocket doesn’t make the installation files available directly to users. But they do offer their own send to phone function that works just like BoostApps to send LifeInPocket directly to “Download Apps” on your phone. Just visit lifeinpocket.com on your PC (or Opera Mini on your phone) click the “Download” button and enter the required information.” nice info. They pushed the app to my phone just like BoostApps.
It’s not perfect but nav is a little bit better than boost navigator. A lot of features but not difficult to use at all. Go through features one by one first gave me an over all idea about what it can do.
The app size is smaller than the boost nav but has more features than boost nav. Oh, it really talks. The map is not as good as Gmap, but Gmap is just a map.
Gmap is nice, it complements life in pocket. Why they are giving those nice apps out for free?
These 2 apps are must have for boost phones. I won’t pay $10 for any app anyway.
This app isnt all that great. I have a clutch and I had to set the end point again when I got a text.