After a few days of anxious waiting, V 1.5 of iPlacemarks for iPhone is finally here.

This is our first official UpDate to iPlacemarks in the App store. After seeing the demand and uptake of our trial 1.0 version, we saw that we are actually helping thousands of people navigate from A to B more pleasurably and in less taps.

We went back to the labs and cooked up version 1.5. Get it in iTunes here or just check the Updates section of the App store on your iPhone.

As always we love to hear your feedback, issues, bugs, or feature requests.

We are excited to announce that iPlacemarks labs: just submitted to Apple a new iPhone version of iPlacemarks- version 1.5 .
A few weeks ago we embarked to replicate the advantages of our android product strategy on iPhone. We devised a 3 step plan to make the iPhone version as robust and interesting for developing map experiences on as the android version:

1. Fix the iPhone Version (done)
2. Version 1.5 (submitted)
3. Version 2.0 (in development)

Before we get too ahead of ourselves, lets focus on version 1.5 . There are some very exciting improvements in this version that we would like to highlight. Really we hope you guys provide us some feedback on these improvements and make other requests and suggestions.

Version 1.5 improvements:

New Functionality:
- Save My Location
- Allows you to create an iplacemark of your current location, so you can find it and route yourself back there later in 1 click from your homescreen

- New HomeScreen UI
- Better interface to guide the user on the 3 main use case flows

- My Places tab
- Allows users to quickly access all of their installed/ created iPlacemarks in 1 place. This is a response to user requests of being able to access nav shortcuts directly in the app.

Info Updates:
- New Intro screen/ Help Screen
- New Pop Up alert text
- Updated Splash Screen to match the pin in the headers

Performance improvements:
- Major overhaul of screens from webview to native
- much faster and smoother loading as a result
- Updated loader animations

Full Steam Ahead

We are excited about 2010. And we have started the year off strong.
Here is the top line update:

1. We updated our android placemark core app. Besides performance improvements and routing upgrades, I am very excited to announce a roll out of our “Shake to Switch” feature for iPlacemark maps. Double Shake the device to slide out the map view of your route, and see a text list view of directions. Double Shake again to switch back to map view. You can READ About it more right HERE

2. Launched 6 new android iPlacemarks. Here is the list of new destinations that we started offering  nav short cuts to:
(thanks to Androidz, TMD’s android guru)

- Krispy Kreme
- 24 hour fitness

- Wendy’s
- Carl’s Jr.
- Burger King
- McDonald’s

3. Fixed iPhone iPlacemarks version 1.0 . Now we are beta testing iPlacemarks 1.1 in our labs right now.

Stay tuned for more updates coming soon