Verizon Wireless will enable users of more than 20 of their GPS-enabled phones to use Loopt, a social networking service that allows users to create a network of friends and relatives whose location can be found on an on-screen map. It also allows users to geo-tag photos and share them with friends on their email lists or AOL Buddy Messenger accounts. Loopt will be available for Verizon Wireless customers next month for $3.99 monthly. Sprint, Nextel, and Boost Mobile already enable Loopt on many of their mobile phones.

Via BetaNews

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HTC’s Touch Cruise of the first of the HTC Touch mobile phone series to feature built-in GPS navigation, but its arrival in Australia with a whopping price tag of $1149 means you’ll pay dearly for its navigational capabilities.  Bundled with Co-Pilot Live Version 7 navigation software, the Touch Cruise uses the popular and highly usable TouchFLO interface.  For a full list of specs, check out the press release after the jump.

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Having trouble keeping track of your friends? Try out NavXS (Navigation Exchange Service), a free mobile phone application that enables cell phone users to keep track of their friends’ location. You can even bookmark and share favorite hang-outs whether they be bars, restaurants, or shopping malls. Before you give this a try, make sure your service plan feature unlimited data usage or expect a huge bill! Other features include:

• Share your current location with friends.
• Only contacts whom you have granted the permission are able to see where you are.
• Log out and stop sharing your location at any time.
• Follow contacts : View current location of each of your friends on the map.
• You can access NavXS and view contacts’ locations both from computer or mobile phone.
• Easily bookmark and store locations you like and share them with friends.
• Currently works with Java-enabled mobile phones and Windows Mobile based PDAs and smartphones.
• It’s free.

Check out the video demonstration above.

Via NavXS