Filed under: Internet Tools, iPhone, iPod touch
New Mobile Google Calendar on the iPhone too
Hot on the heels of the new version of Gmail Mobile for the iPhone comes a new mobile version of Google Calendar leveraging some of the same technology. The previous iteration was frustratingly feature-poor, allowing you only to view your appointments and add new ones using a natural language interface which could be frustrating with the iPhone's keyboard. Thankfully the new version has a more typical appointment entry screen.
Better appointment entry is nice, but the big new features in the new version of Google Calendar for the iPhone are the ability to edit existing appointments, invite other people to events, and the ability to manage appointment invitations and attendance statuses.
Although the official announcement on the Official Google Mobile Blog inexplicably downplays it, Google Calendar now has a modicum of offline functionality on the iPhone and Android phones. Now even if you have no network connection it can still show you appointments that you've previously viewed, though you can't edit them. Hopefully this matures into a true offline capability in future versions, but it's sure nice to know that you can get to your appointments if you need to when you're without a network connection.


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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Serge said 10:22AM on 4-08-2009
Good article!
Thank you for sharing!
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igrover said 1:59PM on 4-08-2009
One baby step forward. Still lacks the ability to create a new event and assign it to a particular calendar. Works great if you only use one calendar but worthless if you have multiple calendars you need to manage.
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richd said 1:09PM on 4-11-2009
is there a way to show the month view instead of the day view in mobile google calendar when you open the application?
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