FourSquare has been exploding on the mobile community over the last year. For those of you that are not familiar with FourSquare, it’s basically a location based social media game. By using your GPS co-ordinates, or AGPS if required, you can check into venue’s close to you. If you check into a venue more than anyone else, you become the mayor of that location.
There are FourSquare clients for BlackBerry, iPhone, Android, and most recently Windows Phone based devices. Any users of the Windows Phone based client can tell you how frustrating it has been to use. It regularly crash’s when trying to check into a location. For the longest time it didn’t suppor assisted GPS. So if you were inside a building you wouldn’t be able to get a GPS fix and check in. One pain point after another and there appears to be no updates.
And now we know why. It appears that a lot of effort has been put into creating a Windows Phone 7 Series client. This new client for a platform that hasn’t shipped yet, looks amazing and offers some really cool functionality. However, in the mean time we are all left to use an unstable, bug filled version.
Anyway, here’s some pictures of what you can expect to see for FourSquare on Windows Phone 7 devices when they do start shipping later this year. There’s more pictures over at Anand Iyer’s blog, Artificial Ignorance including new features like the social tab. If you’re using FourSquare, you’ll want to check them out.
I’m looking forward to the using the new application when Windows Phone 7 Series ships later this year. I just hope it’s more stable than the current FourSquare Windows Phone client. Then again, I’m certain it can’t be any worse!
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