Google Mobile's updated iPhone app is worth a look

Filed under: Web services, Google, iPhone, Search

Google Mobile's iPhone app just got a small, but important, update, full of new features. Most iPhone users don't venture over to the app side of Google search, since the search bar is right there in Safari, but Google Mobile is actually pretty neat. Plus, the latest update allows you to open links in-app, instead of switching to Safari to view webpages. That one little tweak is enough to make Google Mobile a contender for your home screen.

What can you do in Google Mobile that you can't do from Safari? Voice Search, for one thing. The new version of the app improves voice search by allowing you to choose an accent that sounds like yours - whether you're American, British, Australian, or even Japanese - for more accurate recognition. As a fun-but-useless added bonus, you can also now see a waveform on the screen when you're talking into voice search.

Bells and Whistles, which used to be hidden, are now readily accessible. That means you can change the styling of Google Mobile to the color of your choice. Maybe not that important, but cool nonetheless. On the more useful side of things, the results pages themselves now load more quickly and display more results than they did before. All of these new features add up to make Google Mobile worth a try. It's in the App Store now.

Google Mobile's updated iPhone app is worth a look originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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