I was always confused at how popular the Google Mobile App was on the iPhone. Did people use it? It was the third most popular free iOS app of all time! Why didn’t people just use the search bar in Safari instead? I don’t know! In any case, the Google Mobile App got a complete revamp complete with a new name: Google Search. More »
Gmail and Google Calendar notifications, pushed to your iPhone home screen? Yes please. This might be enough to lure me away from the iPhone’s native mail app. More »
Well this is interesting: An invite just arrived in our mailboxes for a Google Mobile event this Thursday, August 12. There’s not much info available other than that Google will be “unveiling a couple of cool new mobile features”. If memory serves, the last time an announcement like this popped we got turn-by-turn navigation. So what’s it going to be this time? More »
If you’d previously downloaded the Google Mobile app for iPad, you might have noticed it’s changed recently – as Apple has finally approved it. The previous version was merely the iPhone version, scaled to size. More »
Google’s mobile page has undergone a minor change. Below the search bar, you can now toggle a menu, called “near me now” to populate a list of nearby businesses, ATMs, restaurants, cafes, etc, based on your current location. Not quite a Yelp killer yet, but it’s something. Available for iPhone 3.x and Android 2.x phones in the US. [Google Mobile]
