Mobile app echoecho makes check-ins personal

By on Sep 3, 2010 at 6:30 PM
General September 3, 2010

This week, we inadvertently stumbled across a pretty neat, cross-platform, geo-location mobile app titled echoecho. The premise behind echoecho is simple: instead of using a service like Facebook or foursquare to broadcast where you are, it offers a way of requesting the location of a single friend. The application integrates with your phone’s address book and sends a message to friends asking: “Where are you?” If your echo’ed friend chooses to reply, you are given their location and can then view that location — complete with the distance between the two of you — on a map . It is definitely an interesting, more personal twist on geo-location. We can see the service being useful in crowded bars, clubs, and the work place; amongst other locations/situations. Echoecho is available for Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Symbian, and Windows Mobile. If you’re interested in learning more, hit the read link to check out ee’s website or your mobile platforms app store to download the goods.

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  • http://www.echoecho.me Nick Bicanic

    Thanks for the shout-out Andrew ;)

  • sirpaul

    lol this site should be renamed to Andrew Munchbach Report….everything is written by you!

  • bob

    makes a lot more sense than letting every would be burglar in the world no when you’re not home

  • Christopher F.

    Really annoyed how two years ago I talked to friends and family about making an app that would basically do this but more integrated and more of a decision recommendation friend location tagging, like “Hey, you’re 2 miles from Mike, and there happens to be a Starbucks near by, would you like to meet up with him for coffee?”

    But my friends were like, nah that would never work. Lol screw them.

  • http://www.echoecho.me Nick Bicanic

    hey guys – sorry to be the bearer of bad news – but for the first time EVER (of course within minutes of this article coming out) our north american registration systems for echoecho have had an…ahem…outage

    normally these things happen for a few seconds and nobody notice – but in this take we’re still trying to lock it down. apologies for this – I will post here as soon as the systems are up and running again.

    • http://www.echoecho.me Nick Bicanic

      ok and we’re all good.
      wow – triple whammy – BGR article, Techcrunch mention and blackberry app world feature – all within an hour of each other…sorry for the delays but the demand was unexpected

  • Dave

    isn’t this a bit like Google Latitude .. in that you control who sees, you can edit your location, and you have it on a map via the google maps app (unless your iphone and forced to use the browser per apple’s demands).. which would let you see distance, what’s around you, and co-ordinate a meet up…

    • http://www.echoecho.me Nick Bicanic

      hey dave.
      well let’s see.
      Latitude has privacy preferences…echoecho doesn’t need them – because the system is private by design.

      Latitude broadcasts your location to google’s servers all the time whether somebody is looking for you or not…so essentially google always knows where you are (in addition to the privacy concern here – there’s also the issue of additional network overhead and battery life)
      echoecho does neither of these things.

      oh and echoecho integrates with your address book – whoever you can call or text – you can echo. no need for them to get a gmail account.

      oh wait – one more thing – the privacy settings – they’re on demand – not burnt in – in the cloud.

      so yeah it’s errm…quite a bit different.

  • zach

    Yeah, it would not let me register my number so I uninstalled the app. I guess I’ll give it another try if they are having technical difficulties.

  • Mohammad

    I’m lost.

  • buzzb

    really cool app! but it crashes every other time I open it on the iPhone 4 I can track my daughter now with out being a jerk a just spying on her!!! ;) just send her echo and let her reply back great app just fix the crash!!!

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Coraopolis Americas

  • BillyBob

    Do your friends also have to have EE installed?
    What type of message is sent to your friends, a text? Do they respond via text or EE?
    What if your friends/kids don’t have a data plan?

  • TCG

    They should have named it marcopolo. I like it though. Never liked the broadcast types.

  • larisol

    URGHHH! Just installed echoecho on my Storm 2 and my phone is now frozen even after rebooting it goes back to the Application Permission module. And stays there..Anyone???

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