“We’ve just released in the US a new version of Google Talk designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod touch browsers. In addition to sending your friends Gmail messages from your iPhone, you can now chat with them while you’re on the move, too! In your iPhone browser, just go to www.google.com/talk, sign in and start chatting,” Adam Connors, Software Engineer, Google mobile team repots via The Official Google Mobile Blog.
“That’s it. Google Talk runs entirely in the browser so there’s no need to download or install anything,” Connors reports.
“There are some differences from using Google Talk on your computer. For instance, in order to receive instant messages with Google Talk on your iPhone, the application needs to be open in your Safari browser. When you navigate away to another browser window or application, your status will be changed to “unavailable” and your Google Talk session will be restarted when you return,” Connors reports. “Other than that, we’ve tried to keep the design as faithful to the desktop experience as possible.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
Now they’ll just need to write a full app that will accept incoming IM’s while in the background. But it is a very good start.
they need a real app. Apple explained they added push system to the SDK for things like this, and we are likely days away from the app store, why do this now?
Why do this now? …because Apple announced that the push features for applications won’t be available until September. This has me bummed because it most likely means that the first version of the AIM app will probably log you out when you hit the home button.
Now they just need to give me an iPhone and I’ll be all set!
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shen ….
you answered your own question
It’s not an “app.” It’s a web-based application. Background-processes are impossible.
Even in a standard “app,” Apple does not allow background processes. Hence the Push features in iPhone 2.0.
they need a native apps leveraging push technology. Hopefully, they will also need develop a native apps for gmail, doc and spreadsheet with ability to save documents locally on iphone and also on the google server.
hmm the download gives me a .exe
not very inspiring
gmail sucks on the iPhone. The stupid idea of labels instead of folders means you download every message twice in an IMAP app. I just set gmail to forward all my messages to my mobileme account.
Sometimes its better to follow the crowd, especially when thectowd have got it right.
With the ATT goons gouging for Text Messages, Apple, or someone, needs to create an Adium type app that covers all the IM bases. It will be a kludgy nightmare if we have to rely on each IM provider creating their own separate IM client for iPhone 2.0 that will each require a precious “desktop” icon…
Help us!! And don’t give ATT $5 for SMS! Fuck ’em!
I was excited there for a second – yet another browser-based app. —- No thanks. When you get a dedicated Googletalk app. for the iPod Touch then I’ll bless you with the perfume of a thousand virgins and pray that your orgasms be equal in number to the sands of the Sahara.