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Hands-On with Google Wave on iPhone

by Simon Ng on December 28, 2009

Have you heard of Google Wave? It’s a hot experimental product from Google announced in May 2009 and currently still in limited preview. If you do not know about it, let’s check out what it is and how it looks like on iPhone.
Back in May at Google I/O 09, Google introduced a new web technology [...]

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Gmail for iPhone is Now 2 to 3 times Faster, do you Feel the Speed Improvement?

by Simon Ng on December 21, 2009

On Thursday, Google’s Gmail team announced an update of Gmail for mobile. The mobile version of Gmail is now further optimized for speed and it should be loaded 2 to 3 times faster than that in April. As claimed, you can now load Gmail on your iPhone (or Android devices) in under 3 seconds. It’s [...]

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Google Mobile for iPhone Gets an Update with Interface Tweak and Additional Language Support

by Simon Ng on December 14, 2009

Google has announced an update of its Google Mobile app for iPhone with the support of additional languages and improved user interface.
We have first covered Google Mobile with voice search in Nov, 2008. The new version comes with a better interface for displaying search result and a built-in browser to open the result within [...]

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Google Goggles – Search the Web by Photos

by Simon Ng on December 13, 2009

Text based search is the most prominent search available on the internet these days. Most search engines, with the exception of a few specialized ones, require text input to be able to crawl their databases for hits on the topic.
Google Goggles is a new application, now available for the Android operating system, that [...]

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Google Enhances Mobile Movie Search for iPhone and Android

by Simon Ng on November 28, 2009

On Tuesday, Google streamlined its mobile search to provide mobile users with more detailed search results for movies. The enhanced mobile search supports iPhone, Palm WebOS and devices running Android.
For iPhone users, simply launch the mobile Safari and point it to www.google.com. Search for “movies” and then tap on the “More Movies” link. Google [...]

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Will Google Maps Navigation Come with iPhone OS 3.2?

by Simon Ng on November 1, 2009

With the built-in GPS and Google Maps, iPhone can always show you the current location and the direction to your desired destination. However, there is one big problem with it. When you’re driving, Google Maps can’t show you the turn-by-turn direction in realtime.
There is no shortage of car navigation applications (e.g. TomTom) in App Store. [...]

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Search Google on iPhone with Options

by Simon Ng on October 16, 2009

Last Thursday, Google introduced a new feature called “Search Options” for mobile users including iPhone and other mobile handsets, including Android & Palm WebOS devices.
You may already familar with this feature. Back in May, the “Search Options” was released to desktop users. With options, Google allows you to further refine the search results by [...]

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GPush Brings Gmail Push Notification to iPhone

by Simon Ng on September 29, 2009

Earlier, Google released an update for Google Sync that adds push email support for Gmail. I already switch to use push email and it’s really great. For now, I do not need to wait for iPhone to download my email. Whenever someone sends email to my Gmail account, iPhone will vibrate and sound an alert [...]

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Google Brings Push Email to iPhone

by Simon Ng on September 25, 2009

You may have been using Google Sync to synchronize your Google contacts and calendar events with iPhone. On Tuesday, Google announced the expansion of the Google Sync service to support email, in which emails are automatically pushed to your iPhone in near real-time fashion.
Google Sync was launched as a beta service in Feb to offer [...]

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