Google Latitude on the Apple iPhone

Google Latitude applications for the iPhone is released. Google Latitude is an application that allows you to tell the current position you are in, and indicate the position of your friends via a map on the iPhone.

Previously, Google Latitude is made for the platform like Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, and Blackberry. Finally, after waiting for 2 years, Google Latitude present in the Apple iPhone.

In the past, Google Latitude is a web-based application and is not suitable for the iOS 4 operating system that do not support multitasking operation. Now, Google Latitude remade into pure applications, and can run on iOS 4 operating system that supports multitasking operations.

The excess of Google Latitude is able to continue to update the mapping when the application is already closed, or when your smartphone screen is locked from the activity. Now, Google Latitude can be used in the Apple iPhone and iPad, and you can download it for free at the iTunes App Store.

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Google provides 'check in' features for Smartphone Users

This 'check in' features complements location sharing service Google Latitude that allows smartphone users with GPS facilities provide their presence information to their friends. You can still use Latitude to update your location automatically. But, check-in lets you add a caption or photo.

This new Latitude service can also be used with Google Maps version 5.1. Unlike other location sharing service, Latitude can use satellite positioning to update the location of the handset automatically.

You can keep talking with your friends or enjoy bagels without having to be bothered by your phone. When you go, Latitude perform check-out automatically, so your friends do not question whether you still there or not.

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