Google Talk on your iPhone

[travelin cat]

From Google Talkabout:

Attention iPhone owners! You can now chat with all your Google Talk buddies while on the go. Our new version of Google Talk is designed specifically for the iPhone and runs in the iPhone's browser, so you don't need to download or install anything. Just visit www.google.com/talk on your iPhone, sign in, and start chatting. And because it is built for the browser, it will work on today's iPhones as well as on tomorrow's 3G iPhones.

[eelixduppy]

Pretty cool I might have to check this out. I've used other browser chat web apps for the iphone before and while they worked rather nicely, I didn't quite see the point in using it. How many people actually use this frequently?

[weeks]

I looked this over and I have to say I don't see any advantage to it over SMS. I suppose you can use Google talk from your computer. But, well, yeah, anything you can do on your computer you can do on your iPhone. Duh.

Funny they talk about using your iPhone to chat. But they don't mean talk chat, they mean IM chat, which is different that texting. Which is different than email.