The Google Places app on the iPhone has seen a major upgrade and now has added three features that will make it all the more appealing to use instead of competing mobile location search apps: filter by proximity, rating and price, filter from "the now open" and the ability to read the complete reviews of restaurants and other businesses within the app.
In other words, show me a coffee shop that's close to me and open now. The addition of these features to the Google Places helps bring its app to feature parity with Yelp's iPhone app. You'll need to download an update to the app to see the new features.
The Places app doesn't appear yet to have integrated much in the way of Plus-style social features, but presumably that's forthcoming.
Google Places also makes it easy to quickly rate the places you visit. By rating places you'll get place recommendations based on the places you like and recommendations from your friends. Google Places (via iTunes)
The Places app doesn't appear yet to have integrated much in the way of Plus-style social features, but presumably that's forthcoming.
Google Places also makes it easy to quickly rate the places you visit. By rating places you'll get place recommendations based on the places you like and recommendations from your friends. Google Places (via iTunes)
