Is there a date for an iPhone App?

Awesome, I'm excited about it... the other services kinda stink .. although I could see where some are a bit different (i.e. they allow tagging /searching of places e.g. "bookstores near me" but no zooming, etc...

If you want a beta tester and feedback I'll be happy to help!
Till then I'll cross my fingers & check out the blog!

Oh incidentally I don't have a 3G phone either... it's the SW that makes the difference and I don't think there's enough HW change to matter (though you may have to implement greater error correction and sometimes my phone tells me I'm in Colorado when I'm in MD :> )

I am very excited for this app, but unfortunately do not have a iPhone 3G, just a 2G iPhone.

My only hope is that you guys give the 2G iPhone people just as good of capabilities to get our location right. =)

i second Dylan's sentiment! And am rowdy for a bK app!

Thanks for all of the excitement guys, we're really excited about it too! And yes, the app will take into consideration all of the 2G users out there. :)

I have a 3G and will be willing to beta test. Emailing you lesley...

I do have an iPhone 3G, which is what I've been waiting for before really throwing myself into BrightKite. I'd love to beta-test :-)

Any update on the app? Not trying to rush things but last I saw was by the end of the month and as a new user to bright kite, i'm really looking forward to it!

Also not trying to rush this. Just looking for a status update. What's going on?

An update would be great. I didn't notice any new status since the first announcement

Keep an eye on our blog (blog.brightkite.com) for an update about the iPhone app. :)

Oh.. we have ... Oh we have. (I look at the blog every day.) Ok... I'll go check it out.

(ed. well.. as of 7:37 on 8/4 ... nothing new to report)

me too...been checking the blog and just left hanging. july came and went. some sort of update would be nice.

We have posted an update about the iPhone app at http://blog.brightkite.com

Whoooo Hoooooo.... thank-YOU

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII just wanna cry. Put your iPhone app around me, baby, put your iPhone app around me, baby.

Another update would be appreciated guys! I cant wait for the App!

I am really really really hoping this kills Loopt because I'm itching to get my less techy friends on something that has a decent interface and proper privacy controls. Please let it work for my original EDGE iPhone and still allow auto-locating.

yes please for working whit edge
thanks

add me to the list of people waiting for the app... :-)

I'm sorry to have to say this, but this is really getting silly. There are new iPhone tracking apps being launched every day. It's more then a month ago now, that the native iPhone app was announced, it's about time to release it!

Oh, and please make sure it's not only released in the US appstore :-S

Yep I totally agree. I think it's frankly lame of BK to throw out the "we'd rather have a stable app" excuse. There's no excuse for not releasing something on day 1, much less now 6 weeks later? We have a large handful of quite stable apps out there that do the exact same thing as BK (some of them on day 1!) What is BK's problem? Clearly for one it's bad programmers and/or bad product managers.

By not having even a minimally functional app on day 1, BK lost, lost big, and continues every day to lose iPhone users that will never come back. BK at this point must not only come out with a good app, but come out with a great app that toally blows away the competition in every way (and of course be free). Unless BK has new functionality on the backend that they haven't yet divulged, there is no reason to expect that BK can do this. They are now fast becoming an "also ran" in the localized-pictureified-twitter race. Sorry.

I'll still try it when it launches, but I honestly don't expect BK to be able to catch up to all these other apps and companies that have such a head start. Plus, surely twitter itself (or facebook) can tomorrow integrate all this stuff into their system and suddenly there's no reason to bother with a third party site?

Yummy, yummy vaporware

davebarr is right. Once Facebook updates to include GPS locations (and they are planning on it), it will make BrightKite irrelevant for anyone to join, IMO. Best to get an app out and loyal following before Facebook prevents that.

I am a patient man, but BK... lets us have the app...

...just checking back 22 days later .... any updates?

Could we at least get an update on any projected release date?

Hey guys, check out the blog. Not sure what the time frame is, but they are starting a private beta now.

http://blog.brightkite.com/

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Are there any updates available ? How's the beta doing? ... estimated number of months left for releasing the application? Will the election be over before the app is released?

Not even remotely interested anymore... I'll be using $other_iPhone_App

Ditto.. getting tired of the wait. Thinking of using loopt now that they have a new version out. Any sort of update on the brightkite app would be nice.

Thanks to everyone for their patience. The iPhone app is coming along very nicely, I have included a couple of screenshots:

We can automatically guess where you are:



Chatting with people:



Nearby people:



Nearby activity:



We are also putting a video together that shows the app in action, so stay tuned...

Nice!

Wow this looks great! Can't wait to give this a try

is the iphone app gonna be free or pay???

Here is a video preview of the iPhone app: http://vimeo.com/1984673

I have tried the app and so far it works brilliant. Available on the AU Appstore now for free!

The app is out. Go get it, it is awesome.