Google updates iPhone experience

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by Stephen Withers

Tuesday, 15 January 2008

! Google has streamlined the user interface of its suite of web applications for the iPhone. Related stories Yahoo!'s Zimbra spiffs up iPhone support MacBook touch - here's hoping it's not a pipe dream Google goes to 'Android Market' in App Store challenge Why iPhone 2.0.2 fixed problems for some users How to Google without Google Changes include general improvements to the UI (especially with regard to ease of use on a touch screen), a customisable main menu bar for rapid access to favourite applications, automatically refreshing Gmail inboxes, auto-completion of contacts' addresses when composing emails, a month view in Calendar, and access to iGoogle gadgets. "These new features provide iPhone users with a desktop-like Google web application experience in terms of ease-of-use, speed, and feature richness but optimized for the iPhone," Google officials said. "We plan to expand this experience to international versions of the iPhone and to other platforms that offer similar usability and browser capabilities." Google automatically delivers the revised iPhone suite when www.google.com is accessed from the iPhone's Safari browser. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to post your comment! Tags See All Tags Google  Mobility  Software  Software as a Service (Saas)  Stephen Withers  Web  iPhone  Get stories like this delivered daily - FREE - subscribe now

 

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