Sprint is about to introduce a new social mapping service called “ loopt ” to its users. With the new service, customers will be able to find and connect with friends, share their location and status messages, send proximity-based messages and view geo-tagged photos and content on-the-go. What this means is that as a loopt user, you will be informed when one of your buddies in the area near you, watch his/her photos of some particular area, and all in all connect in a better way. Of course, the new service will not work on all handsets — loopt promised that it should work on more than 25 Sprint and Nextel phones. Plus, in order to use the new service you will be charged $2.99 per month, plus standard data charges. Wondering why data charges are not bundled with the service? Kinda stupid… Still, sounds like a great service nevertheless. And yeah, it should be available within weeks. Stay tuned… ---Related Articles at IntoMobile:Sprint plans Launch of commerical WiMAX service in Q2 2008Sprint's Pivot Service AnnouncedSprint releases more WiMAX ecosystem detailsSprint's Motorola Q Not Likely To Get Windows Mobile 6.0 UpdateSprint PPC-6800 gets