If you’ve been missing gTalk capabilities on your iPhone, never fear, Google has just created a webapp. If you’ve forgotten what those are…well they’re just like the new 3rd party apps, but lamer. Anyway, the “site” is up on www.google.com/talk and ready for chatting.
There are some downsides to the webapp version of Google Talk. First of all, because it is a webapp, if you close Safari or even go to a different pane, you will show up as unavailable.
Hopefully Google will release a free App once the new firmware comes out and save us from the uglyness that is Safari-based chat. Personally I’d like to see a notifier bar above the home screen to indicate new IMs (much like the iPhone already has when in the midst of a call.
What do you think of this new app? Do you even use gTalk?
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July 3rd, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Wow, i guess i am behind the times, but i have never even heard of gTalk. I am assuming its another instant messaging service?
July 3rd, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Yeah check it out at talk.google.com. It’s a pretty cool protocol. Most of the multi-protocol clients have it now. I use it a lot for people overseas.
July 21st, 2008 at 10:13 pm
They need to make a native app for GTalk.