Google Latitude app for iPhone released

The Google Latitude app for iPhone has been released. Now, you can use Latitude on your iPhone just like the more than 9 million people actively using it from Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, and Windows Mobile smartphones.

The Google Latitude app for iPhone lets you see where your friends are, share your location continuously with whomever you choose, contact friends by phone, text message, or email, and also control your location and privacy. Latitude is 100% opt-in. You must install the app and add friends (or accept requests) to start sharing your location. You can turn off background updating if you’d like and control the same privacy settings: share only city-level location, hide your location, or sign out of Latitude at any time.

You can download Google Latitude now from the App Store in over 15 languages and 45 countries. It will be appearing in the App Store over the next day

The Google Latitude app will run on the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad, and iPod touch (3rd/4th generation). However, background location updating is only supported on the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and iPad 3G. Google is continuing to work on expanding support to more devices.