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Google Talk Comes to iPhone with Speech Impediment

Posted 07/03/08 at 12:07:08 PM  by Paul Lilly

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So here's the good news; Google has officially released its Google Talk application for the iPhone and iPod touch browsers. That means you can text away to all your gFamily and gFriends and look trendy doing it. And you needn't install anything, either. The application runs completely from within the Safari browser. Just head over to www.google.com/talk, sign in, and start mashing away while being careful not to spill your Starbucks Latte.

Ready for the bad news? Don't you dare try to do anything else while holding a conversation. As you might have already surmised, Google Talk "needs to be open in your Safari browser. When you navigate away to another browser window or application, you status will be changed to 'unavailable' and your Google Talk session will be restarted when you return." Giving your undivided attention would be considered good social etiquette in a face-to-face encounter, but must the same manners apply in a virtual environment?

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TAGS: Software, apple, Google, iphone, gadgets, consumer electronics
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avatarBlame Apple

Submitted by HeartBurnKid on Tue, 07/08/2008 - 2:28pm

The problem is that an SDK-based iPhone GTalk app would face largely the same restrictions, due to Apple's bizarre insistence on no processes running in the background.  The only way they'd be able to make a functional IM app would be as an unofficial app only installable through the jailbreak hack.

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avatarNot really that different from PC

Submitted by jwalch.hawk on Thu, 07/03/2008 - 10:41am

Considering the iPhone's implementation of the browser, I'm really not that surprised by the bad news part.  This has always been one of my biggest beefs with the browser-bound version of Google Talk.  They should really just implement the specific Google Talk app. and be done with it.  Google Talk from within the browser kinda sucks anyway.

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avatar>_> apple

Submitted by whisp on Thu, 07/03/2008 - 10:28am

 Your not the only one annoyed by Apples harsh restrictions for app developement on the iphone :s

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