Google refreshes iPhone interface again

The developers at Google are hot on the iPhone, due in part to something called the "Christmas cross-over."

The number of global Google queries (say that five times fast) from iPhones surpassed queries made from Symbian-based phones for the first time in December, probably due to all the iPhones that were activated over the holiday.

Earlier this month, Google released iGoogle for the iPhone as well as an iPhone-optimized Google landing page. Today at Macworld, they announced more improvements for iPhone users (beyond those made in December).

First all, Gmail features auto-refresh. Calendar is speedier and features a month view that isn't available at calendar.google.com, and iGoogle gadgets can be used with the iPhone. I've found that Picasa web albums are significantly faster, both over Wi-Fi and EDGE.

These are great changes. We don't know just how Google is rolling this stuff out, so keep checking google.com/m today.

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Tom

The new google.com/m is live! Looks much better, I like it!

January 14 2008 at 6:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

cycomachead

Any way I can get this on my Windows Mobile 6 phone - anything anything to make it more like the one I would love! ;-)

January 14 2008 at 5:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ZipperSeven

Funny because I've bookmarked google.com/pda since the iPhone specific version is next to un-usable for me over Edge and slower than Christmas over Wifi.

Plus it's got that bug where when you're typing in a search term the Google Suggest part of it will blink the screen in a most disturbing way.

January 14 2008 at 5:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

AngryMac

didn't the calendar have quick-add before?

January 14 2008 at 4:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

AngryMac

Are the top links back under Reader? There used to be a link for Feeds at the top, and suddenly it was gone, only at the bottom. I need that link!

January 14 2008 at 3:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Zach

Google still routes me to the standard results page instead of the mobile version when I use the integrated search box in MobileSafari.

This is very frustrating especially since it has been broken since they launched the first iPhone specific site.

January 14 2008 at 3:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

re quired

Should we assume this also applies to the iPod touch? I am often confused as to whether we can think of those two platfroms as the same or different (expect for the obvious differences). Am considering buying a Touch after MWSF (in case it gets refreshed there).
THanks.

January 14 2008 at 1:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brandon Smith

Yeah, but they still don't support Google Apps for your domain.

January 14 2008 at 1:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Jeremy

True dat.

I have mine forwarded to my Gmail account.
Just add a filter that tags and archives it.

Works for me :)

January 14 2008 at 4:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Beau

Still?!

Ah, at least we score the new Gmail UI/Features :-)

January 15 2008 at 6:31 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply