To watch with the iPhone Friends

Google offers mobile positioning service are now also on the iPhone. With the help of GPS data and Google Latitude, where the friends now. The application does not appear as usual in other programs in the App Store. Apple did not want to be confused with the already integrated Google maps feature to prevent Google writes.

1. Surf with the iPhone page google.com / latitude to. To use the service, the iPhone 3.0 software required.

2. Choose now from the input fields in Gmail, or set up for this service a webmail account. Only with such an account, you can use Latitude. Then the software asks whether they can identify the current location.

3. Tap in the overview on “add friends”, to friends with a Gmail account to email a request.

4. The requested person uses with the iPhone also google.com / latitude to (and needs a Gmail account). If the request to the contact now appears in its own Latitude Map. Conversely, the person accessing your site. With a fingertip, the current location on the map.

5. Latitude Each member may, in his own profile under “Privacy Preferences” to determine three things: whether the company location is updated automatically be it on the map manually to determine whether the position of their own friends will not be visible.

6. Who calls a profile, any time a friend from the list.

7. The biggest drawback: Latitude betrays Diepresse.com according to the site only if all participants on the iPhone, the browser window open with Latitude. Once the iPhone browser is leaving, the application is terminated and there are no new coordinates sent.

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