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)
Please make this app download on boost 6760 incognito…come on….
Yes. You cannot go and directly download this program using your telephone. You have to go to the internet site on a computer first, set up your profile.
Then go to the website using your cellphone and the Opera browser and try to “download”. At that point it will ask you to enter your account name or your cellphone number and then it you can download the program like any other program.
I read here that people complain about the program being slow, but it seems to run fairly fast on my i465.
All of my personal contacts showed up on the device, I can check both Facebook and my Hotmail account on it. Its primary strength is the GPS function and that works well.
Why does this page say it will work with I465 but when you go to the website now it says it only is supported by blackberries… would love to try it.. but can’t download it..URG
If you create an account at Life In Pocket and select Boost Mobile as your operator it will let you download.
i know it doesn’t work on my i855… i think it had a java error and reset phone. looks like it be a great app… but “sigh”
What a great site you have here , lots of great apps . Any chance you know of an ice hockey game that will work on my sanyo incognito ?