And the highlights this time:

• Foursquare Integration - A very cool integration with Foursquare that so many of our users have asked for allowing you to checkin directly from the waze ‘Report Menu. Ain’t it a cool combination of 2 mobile location based apps with a gaming twist?
• Support for multiple languages - All translated by waze community members!!! thanks everybody for the hard work. Anyone interested in translating to more languges is welcome. Visit the forum for more info.
• A broad selection of map color schemes (for those who insisted a map is a map and it should have colors…) . Would love to hear your thoughts and preferences.
• More automated road tweets you can send right from within waze
• Bug fixes and more…

We submitted a new version to the iPhone Appstore a couple of weeks ago. It should be approved and become available any day now and  includes a lot of great features and bug fixes – plus, there’s also a very cool surprise feature, especially for those of you addicted to road munching…. that’s all we can say at this point

Here are the main features coming out in this version:

*  Quick access to your iPod

*  Navigate to an address in your contact book

*  Landscape view

*  More control over what appears on the map

*  Bring up top bar on tap

*  Define which layers will appear on map

*   View nearest wazer & click on wazer to view their details (joining date, distance, points, rank)

*   Crowns for high scoring area managers and map editors

*   Ability to set preference for dotted routes

*   List view of driving directions

*  AND LASTLY… A SURPRISE FEATURE AND CONTEST FOR THE ROAD MUNCHING ADDICTS AMONG US!!!

Wazers nearby and wazer details screenshot, below…

The waze map is constantly improving and really starting to shape up – thanks to more and more people who are getting involved and helping us make the maps of their hometowns better.

This is also a good chance to give a big kudos to some of our top notch map editors: Fitch, hodgie2005, sstair, ryman1, seppesai, dougm, kasrhp and Meister! Keep up the good work!

We are now starting to appoint area managers; an area manager has more privileges and permissions in his specific area of expertise (for example, your city or neighborhood).

We’ve been getting a lot of questions about support for more phones, so we’ve figured  to share our roadmap for the near future here on our blog and unwind some worried minds.

Waze is currently supported on Android devices (G1, MyTouch / G2) and will support future Android devices as well.

1. Windows Mobile – around the end of August we will support touch screen devices such as the Touch Pro and Pro2 (Fortress) , Diamond2 and the Omnia. A qwerty version for phones such as the Snap, Jack and others will follow shortly after.
2. iPhone – the waze version for iPhone will be available on the app store by late August / early September, and supported on both 3G and 3Gs devices
3. Nokie / Symbian – we will support both touch (5800 / N97) and non-touch (E71) phones by early Septemeber.
   
4. BlackBerry – we are planning support for BlackBerry devices (touch and keyboard), but those are still in early stages of development.