You know what it’s like, you head out to the mall, drive round and round looking for a park. Some old lady backs out and you snatch the spot before someone else does. You walk the mall, buy some lunch and walk some more.

Then as you are leaving it hits you – oh crap, where’s the car?

Beacon is an iPhone app that allows you to “drop” a marker anywhere you like, and then use the app to locate that spot again.

Beacon has a radar style interface

Using a radar style interface, Beacon is beautiful in it’s simplicity even if the design is a bit gaudy. The radar is a little cliche and without a little Blip to show you the way is kind of pointless.

Beacon is a fantastic concept & the iPhone is the perfect device for this sort of application. The ability to find anything after placing a beacon there would be great.

Sadly this app is let down by poor GPS and location awareness the accuracy is (here in New Zealand at least) utter rubbish with even Google Maps having far better location proximity than this app. I don’t think the accuracy for this app ever got past POOR.

As a concept – it’s great, as a reality – not so.