WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

For Macworld, Google announced new improvements to the integrated Google experience on iPhone. Google streamlined the interface even further, making the applications faster and improving their usability.

Some of the improvements announced Include:

• Improved UI: The applications look and feel slicker, and they are easier to activate, navigate and use via a touch-screen.
  
• Customization of default tabs.
  
• Speedier Gmail: New emails will automatically show up so there’s no need to manually refresh inboxes. And the new auto-complete feature for contacts makes composing emails faster than ever.
  
• Speedier Calendar: With our new month view, users can glance at an entire month of appointments.
  
• iGoogle: Now Google users can access their iGoogle gadgets on the iPhone. Everything they’ve customized on their iGoogle homepage including weather, stocks, and news feeds now appear on their iPhones.

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. This experience is made possible by the iPhone's general usability and the capabilities of its web browser, combined with Google's innovative mobile web applications.

To get the new Google experience on the iPhone, users simply navigate to www.google.com on the iPhone Safari browser. To see the full range of mobile products and services available from Google, visit mobile.google.com.