Google Wave working on iPhone and Android?

Service due to launch as a mobile app?

14 October 2009 11:15 GMT / By Duncan Geere

Those of you lucky enough to both be in the Google Wave preview and own an iPhone or Android device might be interested to hear that the service apparently works on mobile.

If you visit wave.google.com in your mobile browser, you should find an interface that allows you to view and select waves, different contacts, or view specific things. We tested this ourselves, and got a big fat "Could not open page" on both Android and iPhone, so we can't confirm this development ourselves, but TechCrunch is reporting it as fact.

More interestingly, if - on the iPhone - you save the bookmark to your home screen and re-launch it, then you get a version of the app that doesn't have the Safari functions around it. Instead, it appears full-screen, like a regular app would. This is a feature that was made available a year ago in the 2.1 iPhone update.

One of the biggest issues with Wave in its current state is that you can't access it when you're not sat at your computer, making it considerably less useful as a communications tool. A Wave app for Android can't be too far off, but it'll be interesting to see whether Google sticks with the web app for the iPhone, after its recent difficulties getting its Latitude app approved.

Does it work for you on your Android handset or iPhone? Let us know in the comments.

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Comments

  • Will this work with twitter? Or crush it out of existence? Looks very interesting regardless.

    Cables
    Posted by Cables, USA
  • Google Wave isn't twitter. It's not even close to twitter. If it were to "crush out of existence" anything, it'd be email. Posted by Cory, USA
  • @Cables
    Wave isn't as open as Twitter. It's meant for limited collaborations between smaller, defined groups rather than a microblogging free-for-all.

    Tried it via my T-Mobile G1 and it came up with a "Sorry, it looks like you're using a browser that isn't support during the previous of Google Wave" error page. There was a link to ignore the error (or "continue at your own peril") which did take me through to a mobile-friendly version of the tool that allowed me to create a new wave a post simple plain-text messages to it.
    Posted by GK, UK
  • Its a good tool, but there are other options - personally I use http://www.showdocument.com since it needs no installation.
    really easy for sharing your designs, documents, ideas and collaborating online.
    Just saying you should know all your options. - Laura W.
    Posted by laura wilson, USA
  • Just to respond and clarify to what Laura said, Wave is web based and equally needs no installation, just a web browser (any major but IE... hehe). Twitter, FB, etc. I have little doubt will appear very quickly in the interface as extensions which will embed, update and respond via real-time streams. It's pretty kewl, though awfully lonely so far! :-( It does work on the Android browser (once you get past the non-supported browser splash page, though still clunky and limited Posted by Bradley, USA
  • NO doesn't work on android browser or opera mobile. The beauty of the open source though is that someone will write the wave viewer for android - thanks in advance whoever does :) Posted by Ben, Australia
  • Works for me on my Hero (once you go past the non-supported browser message). Posted by Mark, China
  • I did what Mark did, but if your using loccys browser on android (default on cyanogens rom) you can trick it into thinking you are on a desktop Posted by unknownkwita, Australia

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