Google Latitude Comes To The iPhone
Google Latitude is another interesting project by the company and it is basically a location based service that allows users to update their whereabouts through their GPS equipped phones like the Symbian S60s, Blackberry, Android and now the iPhone.
What’s lacking in the release of Google Latitude for the iPhone is that unlike the other mobile devices which has a native app, the iPhone has to settle for a web app that is accessed by pointing your Safari browsers to www.google.com/latitude. What this means for the iPhone user is that your location cannot be updated constantly through a running background application and thus puts a dent in the full voyeuristic capabilities of Google Latitude.
Blame Apple for that as rumours has it that Apple disapproved of the iPhone app that Google made citing the conflicting capabilities of Latitude VS Google Maps as the reason.
But it’s still fun to be able to use Google Latitude to update my location on the iPhone and check out if any of my friends are nearby.
KuKuNehNeh doesn’t own a compatible phone but there are dangers of her checking out my whereabouts if she decides to add the Google Latitude gadget to iGoogle.
Disclaimer: Of course I had no reason to be in Geylang! Google Latitude allows users to manually set their location for users without a GPS. Really!
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so im definitely going to get one hurray! yeah i’ll go...
July 27th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
If I find you in some random la sup hotel in Geylang, I will snip off your precious penis!
July 28th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
@KKNN> Get a mobile broadband plan and a new phone lar. You can monitor me after that.
August 2nd, 2009 at 2:02 am
LOL. that’s so discriminatory! i live in geylang! *evil smirk* my google latitude always says “geylang”… HAHA.
August 3rd, 2009 at 3:29 pm
@Daphne> You are right! So please explain to her if she ever finds me wandering in tt area sometime.
August 3rd, 2009 at 6:05 pm
well, the food there is really not bad. HAHAHA. pls come to geylang some time, both of you. we can go makan makan!
August 17th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
@Daphne Maia> Of course the food there is good~! KKNN will definitely go if we r talking abt makan.