Outright is equal Facebook phone INQ Super-Social

The has "Facebook phone"! For the media rented in a not so distant past that has since been rewritten in the truth: INQ Mobile, a manufacturer of device with a social bent, has worked with Facebook to release NQI cloud Touch, an Android smartphone with rich Facebook integration. Monday, the INQ Mobile and Foursquare announced they were collaborating on an experience of similar screen for INQ Android devices lineup. Mobile marriage helps users better discover and explore close to via Foursquare.

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The current version will offer Foursquare integration - at the level of the OS just as is the case with the integration of Facebook on NQI "Facebook phone" - a deep link Foursquare that gives users instant access to the functionality of the location sharing and recommendation.

"Because it is integrated directly in the Android system, you can archive and explore the application, without even shooting" Foursquare wrote on the blog of the company.

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According to materials of the INQ on release press asks to be, "" users will be able to drag back and forth between Facebook and Foursquare home screens, according to what they are doing what they are looking for and they want to connect with.""

We have then, is a range of super-socialized INQ handsets that will equalize the Facebook/Foursquare. The two will compete for the attention of the user on the double House of NQI devices screens. A company may be looking towards a billion users and the other ten million; but in the eyes of the author of the handset, social networks, battle in the arena of location, are equal. Equal except that INQ has firmly chosen step Facebook feed location services from its phones.

Fear that we read as many in the decision of INQ, we must remember that the manufacturer of telephone devices have limited support of the carrier and are not yet available to the United States. As such, NQI will make little done to consolidate the ranks of the Foursquare social hierarchy of networking for the moment.

Time to tap: tests outright NFC at the Google Conference

Foursquare and Google join forces to allow a trial of Foursquare checkins via near field communication (NFC).

The test begins Tuesday at Google I/o, the annual Conference of developer in San Francisco. Foursquare and Google were equipped with NFC markers at various points in control of the Moscone Conference Center. Foursquare users can take advantage of their devices to the markers, both that they have a NFC device allowed to verify the location and win a special badge from Google of I/o.

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The test "tap in" marks the first implementation of actual consumption of NFC of Foursquare check capacity apart from release 3.0 Foursquare in March of this year.

The team-up makes sense for both companies. Chips NFC should pave the way for a new era of the location of applications and services-oriented and Google has been long positions itself as an advocate of technology and the new Android devices are already shipping with chip NFC.

For Foursquare, the Conference offers exposure to a large pool of developers who may be inspired by the implementation - and go to build applications third place beef Foursquare ecosystem.

Reading "NFC is, obviously, far from being available everywhere and in all phones," a Foursquare update on the news, but we're excited by the potential. ?

Those without an NFC device can also choose scan the QR Codes on posters at the registration.