Monday, Apple Incorporated announced that its free online speed dating service had been made available to iPhone and iPod Touch owners, who can now easily search for their soul mates or at least find someone to spend Valentine’s Day with.

The application enables access to SpeedDate members' profiles, with whom one can make contact by sending them a „wink” or a „flirt,” while it also allows people to create their own profile in case they are yet to be registered.

Nevertheless, besides also being able to e-mail members, SpeedDate users are confined to performing only these actions via the service.

After the app is installed on the iPhone, which takes only approximately one minute, it requests the user’s location and then displays a list of the singles in that area aged between 18 and 99.

Unfortunately, the users cannot perform a query based on criteria such as height, body type or hair color, the only filtering option in order to narrow the list down being age-related.

Moreover, when the app is turned off and then on again, a user has to go through the motions yet another time, whereas the service does not allow saving matches to a favorites list or remember them as potential dates and search people based on their chosen screen name.

The sole thing you can do is to express your interest in a person and then keep your fingers crossed you’ll get some feedback from them.

The app features three tabs, the „SpeedDate” one, the „My Profile” one, which enables members to view and edit their profile and an „Inbox” one, where winks and flirts from other users are stored.