It's asking a lot of you to go through the hassle of installing and trying out a new application on your phone. Here are some screenshot to help you better understand what Buddycloud does.
This is the "main" screen on Buddycloud. From here it's possible to jump to individual or group chats, update your status message or set your "next-location".
Unlike with SMS messages, Buddycloud lets you send a group of people a message and have all recipients find out how each other replied.
Private messages are displayed on this screen. If you are offline, messages from your friends are stored and delivered once you reconnect. So next time you on a train going through a long tunnel or hiking in the mountains out of coverage, your messages will just be batched up and sent when you are back in mobile coverage.
This screen helps you find people that are also nearby using Buddycloud. Buddycloud uses it's "outward-spiral-search" technology to jump through cell patterns looking for peopel in the area. And failing that we scan an entire city for you!
Buddycloud is all about enabling you to publish your location to your friends. This screen let's you save, edit and delete the places that matter (or mattered) to you.
Buddycloud uses lots of positioning methods. This screen lets you toggle which you prefer.
More preference setting goodness.
Here a user's actions on Buddycloud are pushed out to their trusted friends on Facebook