How to make money with iPhone 3G

If you're an owner of an iPhone 3G, your iPhone probably bleeds money from your wallet. You'll be buying iPhone application (or apps) and games, the bulk of which you'll never look at again. Your telco monthly bill, in order to guarantee enough data available, is probably on the high side, especially when compared to what you were paying for earlier phones.

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And, to top it all of, you're buying tons of accessories for your iPhone, spoiling it like a loving grandparent. Occasionally (not often, but occasionally), you'll find yourself asking what your iPhone has ever done to pay you back? Yes, it’s a great tool, but I mean really pay you back, in cold, hard cash. Now, the folks at Navizon have come up with a way for you to get a little return on your investment.

Basically, Navizon (the Peer-to-Peer Wireless Positioning telco) adds to the basic location services of your iPhone. Your handset can determine your location using a combination of cell towers, Wi-Fi, and GPS, but using the included Maps application, you have no way of knowing which is active at any given time. Navizon displays your position (on Yahoo!, rather than Google Maps), but it also displays a little badge to let you know which method is being used to determine where you are. That way you'll will know, for example, why the map was showing you as located three blocks North of where you actually are. The answer? Your phone was only using cell tower data to find you. You can also take advantage of built-in buddy features to locate friends or family, if they’re using Navizon’s service. You can also configure alerts by logging on to the website to receive notifications by email or web when your buddies enter into specific areas you designate.

The most interesting feature of the app, one that was hinted at earlier, is how you can receive cash rewards for using it. In order to continue to build out their extensive database of cell and Wi-Fi towers, Navizon is offering a rewards system similar to air miles, but without the free flights. Instead, compensation is based on accumulating enough points. Also, in this case, it’s actually the number of towers, not the number of miles you’re being rewarded for. For first-time finds, you get 15 points for every cell tower mapped, and 3 points for every Wi-Fi access point. If they’ve already been found before by someone else, you get 2 points for every cell tower and 1 point for every access point. Once you’ve accumulated 10,000 points, Navizon will wire $10 to your bank account or PayPal account.

No, you can’t retire on that kind of money, but if you’re already using your iPhone to log trails or track your pals, it pays more than the competition, at least. You can get the Lite version in the App Store for free, while the full version costs $9.99. 10,000 points and it pays for itself!



More about making money with Navizon (how you can earn money with Navizon)

Ever wondered how you could transform the miles you travel into cash in your account. Well, now you can with Navizon rewards.

When you use Navizon with a GPS device, every Wi-Fi access point and Cell tower that you pass by will be logged and turned into points on your account.

Once you have 10,000 points, you can redeem them for a reward, and $10 will be wired to your Paypal account (minus the Paypal fee in the amount of $0.19).

How is it possible to earn money with iPhone and Navizon

The idea is fairly simple: some users who have GPS enabled phones, or a standalone GPS device map the wireless landscape (ie. the location of Cell towers and Wi-Fi Access Points) wherever they go, so that other users who don’t have GPS will be able to use a positioning system that works independent of GPS.

Instead, location is achieved by triangulating those same Wi-Fi and/or Cellular signals, whose location is now known thanks to the "mappers."

Like in every community, there are the people who do the work and others who benefit from it.

So users who don't want to map any points, but still want the full featured version of Navizon, need to buy it.

But the money is not going in our pockets, it is going in the pockets of those who make Navizon possible, by mapping the wireless landscape wherever they go.

Make more money with Navizon referral

It is also possible to refer new members to Navizon and and get 20% of the points they accumulate !

NOTES:
Navizon service is not available is some places. Please check their site or contact their technical support for more info.

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