I'm Here: Share your location fast and seamlessly with this modern Windows Phone 8 app

I'm Here for Windows Phone 8

Windows Phone is a platform where you tin can do a lot out of the box without needing a lot of apps. Compared to iOS and Android it could exist argued the basic experience is better in many aspects. It's jam packed with features and you lot don't need to open the Store to get apps to do get things washed. Sometimes a built in characteristic is adept, but can easily be improved. I'm Here is an app that helps to make sharing your location easier and packs a piddling more feature wise compared to the SMS method in Windows Phone. Allow'due south check it out.

Right at present you can hands share your location through SMS/Messaging by attaching your location. It'southward built in to every Windows Phone 8 device and makes meeting upwards with people or sharing your location easy. But information technology does lack a few features and can easily be improved. I'grand Here takes that idea and gives you more sharing options – email and social.

Then why use the app? The developer, Shayne Boyer, created the app to help his teenagers keep tabs with the parental units. They like to cheque in with services like Facebook or Foursquare, but y'all can easily fib your location with those apps. I'yard Hither helps to address that.

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The app is elementary, effective, and has a prissy UI. Simply launch the app, it automatically finds your location, you lot can then toggle map views, and share through SMS, e-mail, or social networks. Recipients will go your accost and a link to a map view. It's a really dainty app. And unlike Foursquare or Facebook, I'm Hither volition only share your location with those you want, when you want. A squeamish mode to touch on base with your family and close friends when you're travelling.

I'chiliad Here hit the Windows Phone Store a few days and already got an update today. The update added the ability to shorten links, change the map modes, and addressed minor location fixes.

You can grab I'm Here for Windows Phone 8 devices hither in the Store, apply the QR code beneath, or swipe to the correct in our app. Don't forget to leave feedback for the developer beneath.

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