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Official Foursquare app for Nokia now available

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on September 27th, 2010

Nokia’s Symbian OS is little known here in the states, where iPhone, Android and Blackberry dominate the mobile phone space. Worldwide, however, it owns 40% of the cell phone market, with an installed user-base dwarfing all the other operating systems. At the Nokia World conference two weeks ago it was announced foursquare would be coming soon to Nokia phones and today that app is available, unlocking a huge potential source of worldwide users for foursquare.

This is a big move for foursquare, as it opens foursquare to a whole new user-base that previously had little access to foursquare. Nokia’s OVI store only offered two apps for foursquare. One, Four²Widget, had received a host of one-star ratings and complaints it didn’t work; the other, Gravity, was a Twitter client with foursquare features bolted on. Millions of Nokia owners now have access to a native foursquare app that works well, which foursquare hopes will translate to new users.

The app was built by a third-party Symbian developer with foursquare’s blessing, so it shares many of the common traits of foursquare’s apps for Android and Blackberry. It does not include the features released last week in version 2.0 for iPhones.

Mark Guim of the Nokia Blog put together a video of the app running on Nokia’s new N8 phone during Nokia World. In the video you can see all the typical foursquare features like checkins, details, searching for venues, viewing friends and flagging duplicate or incorrect venues.

This should translate to lots of new users for foursquare in a market that was desperate for official support. What do you think of the new app?

/Screenshot courtesy of zomgitscj.com.

  • http://www.substanceofcode.com Tommi Laukkanen

    Looks really good! Makes me want to get N8 and start checking in to places here in Finland :)

    I hope that 3rd party developer used Qt when developing your app so that upcoming MeeGo users could also enjoy the fun.

  • JFH

    Great work, and not a minute too soon. Over here in Europe this will double your exposure.

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  • Mario

    I’ve tried it yesterday and unfortunately it doesn’t let me log in (it says wrong time set on the phone, which is silly). I also left a comment on the ovi store. I guess foursquare should give some support to this developer at least with some testing.
    The video looks great, so I really hope I can start using it.

    • Chris Thompson

      I had exactly the same problem at first. I was able to fix it by turning off the automatic time updates and setting my time and time zone manually (leaving it at “local time” did not work).

  • Maher

    Chris Thompson :
    I had exactly the same problem at first. I was able to fix it by turning off the automatic time updates and setting my time and time zone manually (leaving it at “local time” did not work).

    Hello Chris FS Maher user from Tunisia

    Using Foursquare on my Nokia E63 (Symbian OS 9.2, Series 60 v3.1 UI inside) when I tried to log in the first time foursquare on my phone I had the same error message as Mario “:your phone does not seem to have the time set correctly” even when i tried to set the setting Network operator time :”off”.
    May you please tell me what is the exact manipulation to fix it?

    • Thiago

      Thank’s Chris!!

  • http://dzuandiey.blogspot.com mursyid

    what kind of connection it used?….
    a GPS or internet?..
    because i can’t connect it…
    help me..

  • Mada

    My nokia e63 doesn’t locate itself either….
    Does this have to do with GPS? because I don’t have a GPS receiver…. I’m lost

    • Bruno

      My E71 cant’t locate itself too… help!

  • S.

    Phone can’t locate itself. Foursquare doesn’t appear in Gravity. Using Nokia E5. :( I have Garmin and OVI Maps in my E5 though. Do we have to manually sync the maps or something?

  • http://xarasbir.info Xar

    I got the same silly time not correct error and I’m using e63. Such a waste of time.

  • Ant

    Nokia E5, phone can’t locate itself. I have the same problem, but gps and ovi maps do work.
    The solution? I think the problem is the app, not the phone.

  • Tkila

    Ant :
    Nokia E5, phone can’t locate itself. I have the same problem, but gps and ovi maps do work.
    The solution? I think the problem is the app, not the phone.

    Got exactly the same problems – help appreciated!! please…

  • pierroz

    i got a e52 and the application say to me that “phone canott locate itself”
    i suppose it’s an application error,the phone works right!
    Bad bad situation

  • julios

    i have exactly the same error in my n97.
    “your phone could not locate itself. Please try again later” i dont know how resolve this problem… please help!

  • chilifan29

    Maher :

    Chris Thompson :
    I had exactly the same problem at first. I was able to fix it by turning off the automatic time updates and setting my time and time zone manually (leaving it at “local time” did not work).

    Hello Chris FS Maher user from Tunisia
    Using Foursquare on my Nokia E63 (Symbian OS 9.2, Series 60 v3.1 UI inside) when I tried to log in the first time foursquare on my phone I had the same error message as Mario “:your phone does not seem to have the time set correctly” even when i tried to set the setting Network operator time :”off”.
    May you please tell me what is the exact manipulation to fix it?

    I’m using my Nokia E-71 and I tried turning off the network operating time, but I still get the message” phone time set not correct”. Help.

  • jp vaughn

    got the same problem with my Nokia E5-00 phone, same error encountered “your phone does not seem to have the time set correctly” and every time I create a new foursquare account error displayed that ” your phone cannot locate itself” .. so crappy apps, hope, better foursquare apps will launch for Nokia users without any probs. huhuhu.. please fix it! you might loose nokia customers! thanks

  • Yash Maheshwari

    Shouldn’t you link or give credit to the post you copy the screenshot from?

  • Sarah

    I have the e63 and I can log into foursquare fine on my phone, but when I got to places, it says “your phone could not locate itself. Please try again later”

    I’ve seen a lot of people with this problem, but no solutions? Maybe I missed it…

    Help please!

  • Tkila

    You should try the following: Go outside (literally) and try to locate your position by using e.g. ovi maps or any other app – keep your position during the search. It should work but might take a few minutes. If you then switch to foursquare, locations will be shown. That way worked fine for me. Mind to check online for the latest update that is available for your phone.

    • Ant

      I tried but it doesn’t work :(
      And foursquare is useless, anyway.

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