Cell Phone Hits! – Daily Phone Buzz

Google’s finally released their Latitude location service for iPhone, location-aware service that lets you see where your friends are on a map, on your phone. The service  has been around for months on the web and Android, BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile devices. With  Google latitude, your location will only be updated each time you use the app, since iPhone can’t run applications in the background. This could make the app a lot less interesting – on BlackBerry. You do need to physically visit google.com/latitude before Google will announce your location.

To get started, just visit google.com/latitude from your phone and don’t forget to add a bookmark to the site if you want to add it to your home screen. There are two main areas to the UI, ‘friends list’ and ‘map view’. On both you can see the location of your friends and modify your privacy settings so that you control how your location is shared and with whom.