Google announced yesterday a new geolocation tool for both users and an API for mobile website owners and wapmasters. What is cool this works for mobiles without GPS capabilities.

This opens all sorts of possibilities for wapmasters who have services that till now could or didn't want to put in place complicated LBS.

Charles Wells from Google Labs demons this new tool with a new mobile restaurant finder service from LastMinute.com called FoneFood on the following YouTube video :


Sadly this tool works only on Windows Mobile applications for the moment but Google promises that we will have an Android version soon. What we would really like is a Symbian and Java versions so that we can touch the largest possible number of users. I feel that it is only that way that LBS will really take off.

If you know of any other LBS tools like this that work on Java we would love to know. Just post a comment. Thanks