Google Mobile App -What is it?

[Funbags]

I was browsing itunes and download apps in hopes of getting the iPhone tomorrow. What exact is the google mobile app? Did anyone try it?

[Sky Blue]

looks like it's a iPhone front end for google

[t0mat0]

Any word on a version for the UK store? Or do we need to go the the web page, then make an icon from that?

[tomccabe]

just got it installed. very simple, clean app for google web/image/news/shopping/WIKIPEDIA (!!!)

edit: oh wait...it has a spotlight type search function as you type. really really nice.

[Funbags]

So no Gtalk eh?

[heyp]

i don't understand the purpose of this app... somebody sell me that its better than just having a google web clip on the homepage

[SFC Archer]

I dumped it...What a waste....I reloaded the Google Web App and it has search right there. It is a total waste of space on your drive!

[AHDuke99]

I hope they add gtalk to it in the future. Right now it's pretty useless.

[dacreativeguy]

i don't understand the purpose of this app... somebody sell me that its better than just having a google web clip on the homepage

It searches your contacts and other databases on the phone as well. It is spotlight-like.

[Tardyon]

I hope they add gtalk to it in the future. Right now it's pretty useless.

It has a link to gtalk under more. Native Gtalk will be hard until the iphone allows background applications, or gtalk and the iphone can work together with a push aspect.

[wronski]

I think it's nice. Waste of space? All 600 kb?

[cloudnine]

I dumped it...What a waste....I reloaded the Google Web App and it has search right there. It is a total waste of space on your drive!

I know! I can't believe they wasted an entire 663kb of space! Dear Lord!
:rolleyes:

[spamdumpster]

I hope they add gtalk to it in the future. Right now it's pretty useless.

Try palringo.

[spyker3292]

I know! I can't believe they wasted an entire 663kb of space! Dear Lord!
:rolleyes:

Well.. it wastes a spot on a page.

[cloudnine]

Well.. it wastes a spot on a page.

OMG I know! Can you believe that?! You can have 9 or 10 pages full of apps and Google wastes that ONE SPOT... IT'S THE WORST THING IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND OMG WTF OMG!!!!11~

._.

:rolleyes:

[Badandy]

It searches your contacts and other databases on the phone as well. It is spotlight-like.


That's not true. Just contacts, that's it. No calendar, no email, no files, no applications, no nothing.

It's a worthless app, and I really want APPLE Spotlight to come...

[distinctweb]

The program has one main feature that blows the Safari search bar away:
- Search results update as you type. This saves a lot of time and gets you exactly what you are looking for in less clicks.

One concern I had was that it doesn't retain your search once it launches Safari with the results. What it actually does it creates 2 levels of history in the new browser window that can be navigated back to with the "<" button.
First press of back: returns to Google search results within Safari
Second press of back: returns to Google Mobile in same state as it left

There are settings in Under Settings/Google Mobile if you don't want it to search contacts.

It's a quick install. Try it next time you have to search and tell me it isn't quicker than using Safari.