Trapster has announced that it is shutting down by the end of the year after unpublishing its mobile apps earlier this week. Once boasting as many as 20 million users, the service alerted users to nearby speed traps, DUI checkpoints or road hazards by leveraging crowdsourced information. The service was acquired by Nokia in 2010, but failed to provide any significant updates as...
Trapster was a popular Windows Mobile application that relied on a social network to identify speed traps. The reports would then populate a map for mobile and desktop access. While we don't endorse speeding, we did find Trapster to be a handy app to alert you of speed traps and avoid unwanted tickets. The developer has been working on a Windows Phone version of Trapster for some time...
Last week we announced the Trapster would be heading to the Windows Phone Marketplace and had a little contest for an Official Trapster license plate frame. You just needed to tweet, "@Trapster announces #WP7 app is in the works on @WPCentral http://www.windowscentral.com/trapster-announces-windows-phone-7-app-coming-soon-pics-contest" From the thirty some odd readers who tweeted, we...
For those of you who remember Trapster (see site) on Windows Mobile (see our review from 2010), you'll be excited to know that an official Windows Phone 7 version is right around the corner. If you haven't heard of Trapster yet, well, it's basically a social-network for us daily road warriors, a way to communicate the important stuff to other drivers, via you smartphone: Users submit...
I can remember a time that CB Radios and FuzzBusters were the craze to keep track of where the "Smokies" and "Bears" were hiding. Today, in this high-tech era full of social networking applications a new solution has been released to help motorist find out where speed traps are. Trapster is a Windows Mobile application that relies on a social network to identify speed traps and...