Google Latitude Coming to iPhone Today
By Simon Sage on Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 at 12:56 PM PST In Applications, LBS, Social Networking, iPhone
Details are slim, but word has it that Google (NSDQ: GOOG)’s location-sharing service built into Maps for Mobile will be hitting iPhone before the end of the day. The announcement that Latitude would be making the jump was made by Google VP of Mobile Vic Gundotra at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference not long ago. We had seen Latitude working in the mobile Safari browser in a demo before, Fire up your App Stores, iPhone users, and get ready to catch up to Android and BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM). Jussayin’.
[via Fortune]
UPDATE: So, apparently it’s not a separate app, they’re actually using the Safari-based Latitude model – hit up m.google.com/latitude to update your location. I dunno, doesn’t that seem a little… unwieldly?
actually it’s at http://m.google.com/latitude (i got “coming soon” before, but i’m in now) — not a separate app store download. you share your current location with safari, and voila!