Google Goggles on iPhone at Last
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Google’s iPhone app just went from sometimes-handy curiosity to super search-tool. Finally, almost a year after it appeared on the Android version, Google Mobile App has Goggles.
Google Goggles uses the world before you as a search-term. Hold up the iPhone, point the camera at something and Google will tell you what it is. It works for landmarks, books, logos, pretty much anything easily recognizable. What it doesn’t work with, according to the Google Mobile blog, is “animals, plants or food.” This video, featuring a 3D-glasses-wearing Brit, explains it all quite nicely.
The app needs an autofocus camera to work, so it’ll only offer Goggles on the iPhones 3G and 4. I do wonder why it has taken so long for such a useful feature to make it to the iPhone – Goggles launched on Android last December. Perhaps this, like the recent approval of Google Voice apps, has something to do with the relaxing of Apple’s App store rules? The app is available now, and is free.
Google Goggles now available on iPhone in Google Mobile App [Google]
Google Mobile App [iTunes]
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