OnMobile to extend 'Help Me' app on iOS and BB10

NEW DELHI, INDIA: VAS service provider - OnMobile - believes in technical intervention to prevent the ever increasing rate of crime rate in society. To make this a reality VAS service provider has also introduced 'Help Me' a free mobile app that is creating quite a positive impact.

In a chat with CIOL, the director for OnMobile Information and Entertainment Services, Archana Anand said increasing incidents of crime around the globe involving women, children, and even elderly has forced Onmobile to them to embark on a security-driven road-map. The companies Help Me app now avilalble for Android devices will be made avilable on other platforms soon, she said.

Archana goes on to say that despite availability of many safety mobile  apps, the downloads were only few. "Unfortunately, all of them were paid. But to create larger impact, we have decided to make it absolutely free," she said.

'Help Me on Mobile' app can be downloaded on Android device and features two secondary services- ‘I am Here', and the other is ‘I need Help.' Archana said that ‘I am here' is just a location tracker and the moment user switch it on, in every 10-minute, the user's location automatically goes out to people that have pre-choosen.

The new app is linked to the Google API that allows user to get location, and converts it to an address and sending it back to user. The app can be downloaded from OnMobile official Website or company's Facebook page, and is also available on Google Play Store.

Once users download it, they get a widget that that can be clicked on right in front and with just a touch on the ‘I am Here' icon , it turns into a green button. It would keep sending out the location alerts when turned green.

‘I need Help' is an emergency signal and is for women, children, the aged who need help for medical or in criminal incidents. After the two cycles of the alarm, a message goes out to all the people listed as guardians, and the first of them gets a call out. The phone calls out on its own regardless of setting - even if it's put on silent or vibration mode, Archana explains.

"We have launched the app on Android store and we will take it across other operating systems. Next will be iOS and Blackberry, as well as Java and Symbian- so that we can go across to the feature phone market as well," she said.

With this innovative app, OnMobile is eying to capture the Indian market. "We want to really impact the lives of people, so that is the most exciting part of what we are doing today and we are really hoping that all the telecom operators will find a way to partner with us," Archana added.