Geodelic is a very cool and popular app (iPhone and Android OS) that touts location-aware discovery rather than local search – a nice touch! The application filters content by distance (a fix on your location is established upon start up) and presents nearby places of interest using a handy carousel UI (reminds of Yahoo! mobile) enabling the user to filter results by category – coffee shops, travel, restaurants, movies, video shops etc…
Using the carousel, if I select entertainment as a filter option I’m presented with details of movie houses and rental shops. As a sample, I see that Blockbuster Video is 6.8 miles away from me. Clicking on the icon takes me to a detailed listing of the shop along with reviews, location, and contact information (provided via Yelp I believe). Back to the navigation, I can easily switch from carousel view to a map view (showing all locations with push pins on Google Maps), or a list view (sorted by distance). Routing capabilities are also provided although it still bothers me when I select an option like “routing” and it kicks me out of the app.. ie. you have to relaunch to go back to search, regardless still very useful. [Read more…] about Local Discovery (not Search) with Geodelic Mobile