Verizon Wireless said Friday Loopt’s social-mapping service will be available on some phones next month.
Verizon Wireless customers can use the service to share location information, status messages and geo-tagged photos with their community of friends. Loopt users can view where friends in their private network are located via a map displayed on their mobile phones and connect and share their locations with anyone in their address books or AIM buddy lists.
Loopt is 100 percent permission-based and users share location information only with their known friends via private networks. Users can turn location-sharing on or off at any time on a friend-by-friend basis or for all friends at once. Loopt said it regularly works with organizations such as the Family Online Safety Institute, ConnectSafely.org, the Center for Democracy & Technology, and is TRUSTe certified.
Verizon Wireless customers will be able to purchase Loopt beginning in April in the Tools on the Go and Featured Applications shopping aisle in the Get It Now virtual store. Loopt will be available for $3.99 monthly access.
Verizon Wireless customers will be able to get Loopt on more than 20 Get It Now-capable phones, including the Chocolate by LG, the MOTORIZR Z6tv and Verizon Wireless G’zOne Type-S.
