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First Look: Get Home for iPhone
If you own a GPS system, then you're sure to know about the best feature ever invented for GPS: The "Take Me Home" button. Most GPS systems can store your home location and route you back to it with a single tap. The iPhone, of course, doesn't have one of these features ... until now.
Get Home [iTunes link] gives you many options for finding your way back home. You can add a button to the main screen of the app that will call a taxi, find your current location, call a contact, text message a contact, get walking directions, or find a bus route. At the bottom of the app's main screen, you will find how far away you are from your home location. From this same screen, you can tap any of the buttons you've added to open the Maps app and perform the requested action; for instance getting walking directions. If you select to phone a person or text a person, those actions will be carried out immediately as well.
Get Home is a good application for people who like to do a specific task from one application. The main purpose of this application, which is to find a way home, can be carried out mainly with the Maps application and saving bookmarks. That being said, Get Home does work as advertised and does have a nice interface. You can purchase Get Home from the App Store for $1.99 US.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
BeyondtheTech said 3:04PM on 6-11-2009
Wow, that music was obnoxious at best. Way to promote your product.
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ipodrulz said 3:24PM on 6-11-2009
There's something about that colour scheme that makes me nauseous.
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frank.lowney said 3:44PM on 6-11-2009
The iTunes Store says that this will work on an iPod touch so long as it has the iPhone 2.0 software. Is this really true?
I would imagine that iPod touch owners would get significantly different mileage out of this since it relies exclusively on WiFi and has only WiFi location awareness to draw upon.
May I suggest that it become SOP to talk about how an app would perform differently on an iPod touch whenever the iTunes store says that it is supported. In cases like this, you would be saving people some disappointment.
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tabaks said 3:45PM on 6-11-2009
There's nothing about this app worth even mentioning.
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Slauncha Man said 3:55PM on 6-11-2009
Or you could download my app called "Take Me Home." It's not as flashy, but it was there far before this crap and it's cheaper.
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blachole said 5:31PM on 6-11-2009
So this does what..nothing I can't really do on the phone myself, so why should i waste my time with configuring and setting it up?
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JKT said 10:14PM on 6-11-2009
There are several apps out there like this one that are total copies of features already built into the iPhone (tip calculators that save you the trouble of using the built-in calculator to multiply by 1.2, etc.) But the real question is why does TUAW waste page space even mentioning this one?
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Gareth Parris said 4:05AM on 6-12-2009
Ok I am the only one to notice that when he clicked on 'Walking Directions' the map came up with car directions (the car icon was selected at the top of the map screen) and not walking directions?
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One of Many said 2:07PM on 6-12-2009
Did anyone else notice the shameless plug for a certain mythical character (and I'm not talking about Johnny Appleseed)? When will America join the 21st century and give up it's childish belief in the Mythology known as religion?
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Luke Seeley said 2:15PM on 6-12-2009
He is Canadian and not religious.