For the crap camper!

[LusciousLucy]

Seriously???

[LusciousLucy]

I think the Daily Mail probably had dealings in the invention of this! It reeks of Liz Jones!

[fowls]

Someone linked to this a few weeks ago after it was shown on a BBC show. It was surprising how many people actually thought this was a good idea...

Edited May 29, 2011 by fowls

[LusciousLucy]

And many numpties totally buggered when the battery on their Iphone runs out after day 1 and they cant find their way home!

[FluffyFairy]

I can just imagine people glued to there phones and bumping into things whilst searching for the beer tent. Not to mention the panic when their battery dies. I guess they forgot find their way to the charge tent

[eodsi]

easily solve that, just add a charging tent to the app and spend the whole time going between the two!

[SGP SOM]

this would of been handy a few years ago when our mate pitched our tent for us as we arrived late in the day.By the time we arrived he'd completely forgot where the tents were including his own, after 4 hours of wandering around with all of our kit we bumped into his brother luckily and managed to get us there!

[jamiejc]

Kind of takes the fun out of it...

[LusciousLucy]

easily solve that, just add a charging tent to the app and spend the whole time going between the two!

[nellyt66]

Probably a cross over idea with the inventions thread, but I think we should all get a young lady at the gate to guide us to our camping spot, pitch our tent for us, and then be available 24 hours a day to guide us back to the tent when we're mashed on cider and cake.

Be a winner I think.

[incident]

Can't Google Maps and plenty other free applications already do this anyway?

Prety much everyone with a GPS enabled Smart Phone will already have this capability, not sure why anyone would even consider paying.

[Spindles]

This is the kind of crap shovelware that iPhone users are paying good money for every day.

I get the feeling that this is funtionality that will be built into the orange app, thus rendering this even less useful than it was in the first place (based on the fact that, as everyone has mentioned,almost any smartphone can already do exactly what the app does out of the box)

[bumpy_capers]

Can't Google Maps and plenty other free applications already do this anyway?

Prety much everyone with a GPS enabled Smart Phone will already have this capability, not sure why anyone would even consider paying.

Edited May 29, 2011 by bumpy_capers

[LondonTom]

I really hope its some clever soul, who is just having fun and it sends them completely the other direction to their tent.

Mhmm, I could be on to something here!

[grumpyhack]

Technology does seem to detach people from common sense. Instead of talking to each other we text. Instead of using our eyes we use GPS. But that's a comment from a grumpy.

[jamseyboy]

My version is cheaper. Leave one phone in the tent and take the other with you.....then when wandering home 2 sheets to the wind you simply ring the phone and bobs your uncle you follow the sound of the tone. For best results connect it up to a suitable sound system and use the cry of a wounded elk ( or such beast).....no one else will have this tone at 3 in the morning. Think how pleased your neighbours will be that you made your way home safe!

Edited May 29, 2011 by jamseyboy

[msutherlandglasto08]

I'm sure that the people using this would be the first to complain when they fall over as it didn't tell them where the other tents guy ropes were!

[Dubbist Dave]

Will it even work with 1000's of other people trying to use their phones? Don't the networks normally get double busy?

[Festival Liam]

So just me that does think it is a pretty good idea?

I know I am camped like 8 rows from the path with that funny looking bin, inbetween the smiley face and the Kasabian flag, with the festival behind me, with that massive gazeebo to my right ....

But you know what? Sometimes I just really want some beer or am in a rush to see an act and need to find my tent, and can't!

I am useless at finding tents. This would probably help me!

That being said, I dont even own a phone which has applications on yet, yet alone will be taking one to Glasto if I do by then.

[Spindles]

Heh, we all lose our tent a little bit from time to time, for me it is usually that you set up, get your bearings and then when you return a few hours later the landscape has changed dramatically as the field that you thought looked full when you arrived now has 3 times as many tents in it.

I think most people's point is that the majority of handsets released since 2008 have come with GPS functionality out of the box, most people are on a 12,18 or 24 month contract so pretty much it's only PAYG users who wouldnt already have the functionality (and alot of them would) in which case they wouldn't own an iPhone.

There is alot of crap software out there being punted to phone users that is little more than an icon set and a couple of images with a few sounds. The problem is, if people keep buying it they will keep making it. There is nothing worse than being stuck in a pub with an iphone user who wants to show you their favourite 'apps' (which usually consist of a single screen graphic, 3 or 4 buttons to press that make sounds and nothing more)

I used to do a bit of coding, would never have considered myself skilled enough to make a living from it but am amazed at some of the crap that people are paying good money for on the iphone.

[geebus]

I might have actually had a crocodile burger if I'd used technology like this! (Only ever saw the stall just after having eaten, or in a rush, etc - have more than once spent a couple of hours looking for it and entirely failed.

Ok, it could just be marked with a pencil on a map.

However, I'd expect there's plenty of more useful apps already out there that will happily do a similar job for free.

[Spindles]

Indeed, I'd expect the free orange app to have all the functionality of this tat plus more besides. Sadly I think that the fact that it seems to be based around web based and locational services that it will eat batteries like Adele eating cakes before the tax man knows she bought them.