Echoecho – The Fastest Way To Find Your Friends

Los Angeles, California - April 28, 2010 Purpose Wireless announces version 1.5 release of echoecho - the first free, permission-based, location sharing solution available worldwide on iPhone, Android, Nokia Symbian, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile

(I-Newswire) April 29, 2010 - With echoecho smartphone owners can ask and answer the question “where are you” in one simple click.

Whether you are traveling, meeting friends around town or trying to determine whether your date will be on time for dinner – echoecho helps you find your friends, family and colleagues – without needing to text or call.

”Since we launched in late January, over 100,000 echoes have been sent”, states Nick Bicanic, CEO of Purpose Wireless, “Everybody seems to love the simplicity and speed. Version 1.5 gives everyone more of both – with a few extra features thrown in.”

With echoecho there are no profiles to fill out and no social networks to join. Just browse to m.echoecho.me, install the application and you can immediately begin finding any friends in your address book – just send them an echo.

“The coolest thing about echoecho is that it’s so fast and I can ask where my friends are now as opposed to where they were when they last checked in,” says Arben Kryeziu – CEO of technology startup Bump Networks, “It also makes it very easy to share my location only when and with whom I choose.”

echoecho has been designed from the ground up with user’s privacy in mind. The user has full control of every location sharing interaction without any complicated preference screens. echoecho is ideally positioned to expand location sharing well beyond the early adopter/geek niche that seems to dominate location sharing applications to date.

“Your privacy is not a game” explains Bicanic, “echoecho is a utility allowing you to quickly and easily share your location without ever compromising your privacy.”

Additionally - with an open API, echoecho is designed to easily connect into 3rd party systems – allowing mobile phone manufacturers, developers of online social networks, portable games and other applications to quickly add a location-sharing component. Purpose Wireless is already working with several partners to incorporate echoecho into specialized solutions for workplace management and the security industry.