the NYC Condom Finder smartphone app

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NYNP wrote: In case you missed it, yesterday was both Valentine's Day... and National Condom Day. To celebrate, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene launched its new NYC Condom mobile-enabled website, so more New Yorkers on the go can use smartphones to find free condoms and access sexual health information. The NYC Condom mobile website, which provides users with sexual health information, has been optimized for mobile phone screens and the NYC Condom Finder smartphone app will be able to be downloaded using Windows and Blackberry platforms. Viewers can learn about the importance of using condoms, how to use male and female condoms, and how to find free safer sex products, such as male and female condoms, in all five boroughs.

“New Yorkers are mobile, so we need to reach them both with sexual health information and easy access to service information wherever they are,” said Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City Health Commissioner. “We distributed well over 36 million male condoms and 1 million female condoms last year. With expanded access to the NYC Condom Finder, New Yorkers and visitors alike can find the resources they need for safer sex using only a few taps on their phone.”

“New York City is on the cutting-edge of using new technology to promote safer sex in our city,” said Dr. Monica Sweeney, Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control. “Our app expansion and new mobile condom website take us two steps closer to making safer sex the norm.”

The custom application, which will now be available for Windows and BlackBerry smartphones (check the NYC Condom Facebook page for more information), uses the global positioning system (GPS) technology from a user’s smartphone or allows users to manually enter an address to determine the five closest NYC Condom distribution venues. To download the NYC Condom Finder application, New Yorkers with Windows, BlackBerry, Apple, or Android mobile phones can search for ‘NYC Condom’ on their respective devices. The NYC Condom Facebook page also has information about how to download the free application and how to access the mobile website.

source: http://www.nynp.biz/index.php/breaking-news/9205-need-a-condom-weve-got-an-app-for-that

Is there a big overlap between people who are too broke to buy a non-NYC brand condom, and people who use smart phones?