At the moment, Google and T-mobile are busy rolling out their latest OTA firmware update to the G1. But hidden inside that update is Google’s latest add-on to their Google Maps Application: Google Latitude. This new app works with Google Maps and allows users to share their location and message other people from their contact list. The application is very similar to the Loopt application on the G1 and the iPhone, but allows anyone to access it through their web browser as well through their igoogle.com page if they already have a Google account. The advantage that Google has over Loopt is that they are pushing this new app out to all T-Mobile G1 phones and most likely will include it an all future building of the Android OS. Google Latitude will also be rolling out to the iPhone, Windows Mobile, and most likely any other Mobile OS that already has Google Maps support. We’re still waiting on our OTA firmware update for our G1, but we’ll be sure to post our impressions once we get out hands on Google Latitude. Until then… you can always download Loopt.
Make sure you check out the official Google Latitude page.
