As the clock struck midnight this morning, Google announced Latitude, a new tool purposed with sharing your whereabouts with your contacts by way of GPS. Some call it creepy, and others welcome it with open arms – but it seems like just about everyone wanted to check it out. For folks running Windows Mobile, S60, or BlackBerry, that was no problem. They just had to point their phone’s browser over to google.com/latitude and they were good to go. For Android users, however, that page promised only that it was “coming soon”.
“Soon” indeed – in fact, for those lucky enough to have already had the RC33 update grace their handsets, it had already debuted before it was officially announced. If you’re one of the lucky folk, let us know how it is – we’re still waiting for our update.
Anyone think Google should just buy Drop.io? Seems like the natural progression for a feature like this.
I find it very interesting …. the only bad thing is that absolutely no one of my friends will ever use it … so it will be totaly useless for me ….
I just have to find a way to install it on my girlfriend phone and truck her every move :D
It’s similar than http://metaki.com but with metaki you have a lot of more options!!
I run a small valet firm occasionally for one of my friends. This app will be great for coordinating between parking lots for big/busy events. Personally though, I’m not sure if I’d like having the potential for all my business clients to get tracked if my phone was hacked/stolen (most likely it would simply fall out of my slacks’ pockets in a cab). I’ll check
gemalto to review if it’s fairly secure before I use the app.
works like a charm