Filed under: Macworld, Internet Tools, iPhone
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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Brandon Smith said 1:02PM on 1-14-2008
Yeah, but they still don't support Google Apps for your domain.
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Jeremy said 4:47PM on 1-14-2008
True dat.
I have mine forwarded to my Gmail account.
Just add a filter that tags and archives it.
Works for me :)
Beau said 6:31AM on 1-15-2008
Still?!
Ah, at least we score the new Gmail UI/Features :-)
A B L said 1:41PM on 1-14-2008
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.
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Zach said 3:15PM on 1-14-2008
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.
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BobbyW said 3:31PM on 1-14-2008
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!
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BobbyW said 4:38PM on 1-14-2008
didn't the calendar have quick-add before?
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Eleventeen said 5:10PM on 1-14-2008
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.
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Cycomachead said 5:48PM on 1-14-2008
Any way I can get this on my Windows Mobile 6 phone - anything anything to make it more like the one I would love! ;-)
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Tom said 6:39PM on 1-14-2008
The new google.com/m is live! Looks much better, I like it!
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