Sprint customers, check your GPS settings

Sprint recently announced the availability of a GPS based shopping service for wireless customers. Sprint has yet to announce which phone models will support the service, but that does not prevent you from deciding whether or not GPS based shopping is something that you’re OK with.

today introduced a new concept to its GPS-aware phones. Called Slifter, the technology made by GPSShopper uses the global positioning in some of Sprint’s handsets to automatically find stores near the phone owner’s location; the service lets owners search not only by the store’s category but also by the actual product, using a continually updated list of 85 million items to find only retail outlets that carry a particular item.

Personally, GPS is too much of a battery drain for me to keep the feature enabled. Are you using your GPS enabled device full time?