Comments on: Meet Sherpa, the Hottest Android App

By: With the iPhone, Geodelic Finds Dollars & Seoul – GigaOM

With the iPhone, Geodelic Finds Dollars & Seoul – GigaOM — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:33:13 +0000

[...] learns a cell phone user’s favorite locations and lifestyle behavior and was initially launched exclusively for T-Mobile’s myTouch phone, has been downloaded some 350,000 times. Adding to that user base [...]

By: Does Location Need a Special Purpose Device? – GigaOM

Does Location Need a Special Purpose Device? – GigaOM — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:10:57 +0000

[...] and those in the industry to see how something like this would play out. Rahul Sonnad, CEO of Geodelic, which makes the Sherpa application, said that most of the functionality Qualcomm seems to have [...]

By: Will 2010 Finally be the Year of Location? – GigaOM

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By: Andrew Shotland

Andrew Shotland — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:49:02 +0000

When I first saw this App I was really struck by the user experience. It has the best feel of any mobile app I have used.

By: tmob

tmob — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:24:55 +0000

I am a tmobile emp. and we have been told to load this on ALL demos (3-4 per store) and to load it on the customers phones when we activate or upgrade them WHETHER THEY WANT IT OR NOT. Thats why it has had such a large up tic. Its ok but i wonder why the company is pushing it so hard?? Do we have an intrest in it? There are other location type apps that are just as good or better based on the reviews….. make me wonder.

As an aside: i installed the ” appPack” and promptly uninstalled most of it, half the stuff caused a force quit.. just sayin’…

By: Louis D

Louis D — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:38:28 +0000

I had Sherpa running on my G1, and Sherpa was very mediocre peformance. I just upgraded to the MyTouch. It works 100x better and I love Sherpa on it. If I had a G1, I’d be panning it too, but I think it is more about the device’s inability to run multiple applications more than anything else. Thanks, Om.

By: Kumar

Kumar — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:47:53 +0000

Yan-

Actually those #s are publicly available and tracked via the android market.

By: Yan

Yan — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:28:05 +0000

I downloaded it on my G1 as well. The app doesn’t do much and is really not worth all the hype t-Mobile is generating. The download numbers are inflated no question.

By: Kumar

Kumar — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:05:46 +0000

I just downloaded Sherpa on my new Mytouch and it’s actually pretty quick especially on 3G. I’m wondering if other users are running multiple apps in the back round or if the G1 just sucks. It will be interesting to see what their Iphone app is like.

By: Craig Baker

Craig Baker — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:29:50 +0000

Can’t find this in the market.

By: Aamir

Aamir — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:23:02 +0000

Om – I downloaded it to my G1 and it’s embarrassingly slow. Is it really better on the myTouch?

By: Mic

Mic — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:34:55 +0000

It is indicative that they had to push the update of the application on the very first day of release in response to unfavorable user reviews. That tells that they were not well prepared for the launch. Their marketing and business people did a great job hyping the app and making T-Mobile connections that gave them the distribution but it seems to me that their engineers and product people were not up to the task and almost blew up the opportunity created by their business and marketing. There are several Android apps aiming for the same space that have better ratings than Sherpa.

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Thu, 06 Aug 2009 20:00:15 +0000

[...] Meet Sherpa, the Hottest Android App [GigaOm] The Android-based app Sherpa is a location-based application that helps you find parking or restaurants and actually learns from the user, making a more customized experience. [...]

By: Vat Krish

Vat Krish — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:26:04 +0000

Actually, when you look at the review comments, there are haters and lovers it seems. The total ratings on the other hand seems strong. It’s interesting that an app would polarize people like this. Or maybe it’s just an issue with performance on the G1 vs. the myTouch. The press release says it’s “optimized’ for myTouch whatever that means. Maybe it is too graphically intensive for the G1.

By: gbp

gbp — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:02:44 +0000

its a good app from the description of it.
But there are many other location based apps.
I am not sure its hot though, the phone just got released.

By: Jarrod DellaChiesa

Jarrod DellaChiesa — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:05:30 +0000

The app really isn’t that great – it is slow, occassional halting graphics and really isn’t QUITE worth the hype that Tmobile made about it (along with most of their App Pack recommendations).