Jun 8th, 2007
Google and Your S60 Phones - Part I
This is my first posting after my “long” vacation. Sorry for lack of postings because I am still catching up with my emails and feeds.
In the next couple of days, I am going to write several blog postings about various Google services for our S60 phones (multimedia computers). Why Google, and not other services? Simple answer: everybody loves Google. Be honest, how many of you can live without Google?
There are several Google applications and services available for S60 devices. Actually all of them are available on other mobile phones as well.
In this first posting, I am going to discuss about Google Web Search. To use the mobile version of Google Web Search, open web browser and type
Notice “m” at the end of the URL. You can still use the classic Google Web Search, but the mobile version is lighter and faster to load.
From this page, you can do search as you would normally do on the PC. Here are some other interesting things you can do with Google Web Search.
Weather. For example, enter “weather vancouver bc” to find weather information in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Stock. For example, enter “goog” to find the latest stock price of Google.
Places. For example, enter “Mcdonald vancouver bc” to find McDonald’s restaurant around Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Movies. You can enter the movie title to find the show times of the cinemas around your area. For example, you can simply “Shrek the Third” to get the result like the screenshot below.
There is a drawback of using mobile version of Google Web Search, i.e. not all features are supported. For example, we cannot inquiry exchange rate by entering “1 USD in CAD”.
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