Google Mobile App now available on Windows Mobile

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Google Mobile App now available on Windows Mobile
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:00 AM

One of the most common questions we are asked on this blog is "When will this be available for my phone?". Well for all you Windows Mobile fans the answer is "now" for the Google Mobile App. Try it out by downloading it from Google on your mobile phone.


Google Mobile App gives you faster searching on your Windows Mobile device, with easy access to your favorite Google applications from the Today screen. There's no need to wait for a browser to open to begin a search, and with search history available to reduce typing, you can get your search results with fewer clicks than before. For an even speedier experience, Pocket PC users can add the Google Mobile App to the start menu (Settings: Menus) or configure a hardware key (Settings: Buttons) to provide easy access from within any application on your phone.


How much faster is it? Well, our stopwatches show that Google Mobile App team members (who are mostly normal people, no superpowers were deployed during the timings) were able to get their search results for identical queries nearly 50% faster from Google Mobile App than from navigating to google.com in the mobile browser.

Google Mobile App is available for all devices running Windows Mobile in the US, UK, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, and Germany. (Check your phone model here to see if your phone is running Windows Mobile.) It is also available for iPhone, iPod touch and BlackBerry devices.

 

It works pritty good.... I set it to turn on with a button press and now I can get to google from any screen.

 

lol. how are you liking it so far?

I find that I dont use it as much as i thought i would.... i think i'm old school and just like flipping thru my phone's menus....

 

i ended up mapping it to a button press so it didnt take up screen space....