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GTalk on the iPhone

Published by on Jul 3rd, 2008, 1 Comment

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Google announced browser-based Google Talk for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch today. Although it’s not in the form of an iPhone application, using the iPhone scripting libraries Google created a similiar environment on your iPhone than what you used to on your desktop.  In your iPhone browser, just go to www.google.com/talk, sign in and start chatting. Typing on your iPhone screen is quite tedious hopefully the screen keyboard is better with the iPhone 3G.

Since this is a web app, Google Talk for the iPhone only works when it is the active window in Mobile Safari. Close the web broswer, or switch to a different window and you’ll show up as unavailable in Google Talk.

With such a basic service why did it take Google Labs so long to release a iPhone enabled GTalk, perhaps they are saving the best for their own Android?

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  • http://www.geniosity.co.za/musings/ James

    Just a pity they don’t support Windows Mobile the way they do with the iPhone apps. I wish they’d get out of bed with Apple and come over to the light side :P

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