iPhone is actually location un-aware

Check out this link at the O'Reilly Radar... The author is apparently displeased at the fact that iPhone applications can't poll for the location of the phone at any given time. The only time an app knows where the user is is when that app is open and being used. So if you want to be, I guess, notified that a friend is within a block radius, this is pretty much impossible (vice leaving the application open). This was one of the big reasons to get one of these types of phones, so now I'm pretty happy that I'm waiting for the G1 Android phone on October 20 (or maybe a different Android phone, now that the G1 is sold out for pre-orders).