First look at the Google iPhone search app

Well, it happened. Google’s voice recognition mobile app finally arrived today on the iPhone App Store. Until today all we had to go by was the demo video that Google created showing it in action.

And that video shows something that quite simply changes the way I’d use the phone. Instead of clicking buttons on the virtual keyboard to search the web or my contacts, I’d just hit a button and use the Google Mobile App. And it really is just one button – it knows, via the accelerometer, when you put the phone to your ear and when you take it away. Voila! Cool stuff happens.

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