Google Latitude Coming Soon — App or Feature?
Google Latitude has been making headlines in the last month as a nice little social add-on to Google Maps. Reviews seem to be great on it, but so far isn’t available on the iPhone or iPod Touch.
At least, not yet.
According to Google Latitude’s website, that should be changing sometime soon. And why shouldn’t it? With the GPS included in the iPhone 3G (and who knows what will be included in the new iPhones rumored to come out this summer with OS 3.0), there’s no reason why it wouldn’t work.
It turns out that Google is working on Latitude as a new feature for the iPhone. We are pretty sure it will be added in as a feature for Google Maps, and not as a separate app to be downloaded. This is exactly what Google did with the Street View feature on the iPhone. So unless a new OS update comes out before 3.0 (2.3? 2.2.2?), we should see Latitude become a reality this summer.
Google Latitude allows you to see exactly where your friends are, in case you want to meet up with them or are getting lost trying to find their house. It also allows those friends to type in short status messages (a la Facebook style) about themselves.
via Google Latitude