Google Latitude For iPhone Released

Google latitude has been released for the iPhone.

For those who are unaware, Google Latitude is a location service that uses your cell phones GPS and WiFi signals to learn your location, with other Latitude users. (Presumably friends and family). One of Latitude's biggest features is the ability to view the locations of your Latitude contacts, from your computer, within iGoogle. This may be useful for a parent who is at work, and would like to check in and see where their child is. Of course, Google has built in a number of privacy settings that you can customize to your liking.

The iPhone version of the application does vary slightly from that on other phones. According to Google. Apple requested that the App be web based, and not be a localized application... to avoid confusion over the built in Maps application on the iPhone which google also powers.

If you are interested in learning more about Google Latitude you can visit http://www.google.com/latitude