An overview of Google’s Mobile services
I’ve been using Google’s Mobile apps on my Blackberry for the last few weeks. It’s pretty interesting… and the setup is pretty easy. Send yourself a link via their web page (above link) and you can download their apps without typing in a long address on your phone keypad.
This provides installed applications on your phone, and gives you phone shortcut 
icons (at least on many phones) to Google’s Search, Maps, Gmail, News and even Google Talk instant messaging.
In addition to the installed applications, and the obvious mobile search, there are also some stand-alone mobile apps available as well via your phone’s browser at http://mobile.google.com.
An overview:
Text message for info
I’m pretty excited about the free Google SMS beta, whereyou can get info on a variety of subjects by texting a 466453 (’GOOGLE’ on most devices). You can text several types of information (examples on the page) like:
- a food type with a zip code, and it will give you a local listing of restraunts in that area
- sending a sports team will text back recent game scores
- a stock symbol will send back recent pricing
- “weather” with a zip code will send back the current and forcasted weather
- texting a flight number in will get you a status update
- and many more… check the site for examples
Maps with traffic info
Maps with traffic info, directions and satelite info are also accessible via www.google.com/gmm on your phone browser as a stand alone service.
Text and images to your Blogger account
You can set up your Blogger blog to accept images and posts via your mobile phone too.
News updates
Search and view news, even set key words to show personalized news.
Seems like a great start for mobile information services… 8-)
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