Inside the Google+ iPhone app

Everyone with an iPhone is desperate to get their hands on the Google+ iPhone App.
There’s the Google+ iPhone WEB APP – which you can access just by visiting plus.google.com in your Safari browser and logging in.
Here is some useful stuff about it. This may tell us a bit about what’s in store when the full Google+ iPhone App finally arrives.

Google+ iPhone Web App features:


Home Screen
When you log in to the app you see the home screen – nice and clean – access to your stream, photos, circle and profile – nothing surprising here!




Profile
This is the part  is the biggest Facebook clone! The profile screen – with its buttons for About, Posts and Photos is VERY similar to the Wall, Info, Photos layout in the Facebook iPhone App.

Notice any similarities?!

Stream
Hit stream and the default view is updates from people in your circles. Hit “comments” next to a status update and you can view all comments and add your own:

At the top there are little navigation arrows to right and left for “Incoming” and “Nearby”.
Incoming is just a list of message updates – nothing too clever about this
However Nearby makes nice use of iPhone geolocation and provides you with updates from people closest to you:

Status Updates
Hit the pencil icon to post a status update – choose which circles to share it with – and you can also include your location (or choose not to by deleting it)

Check-Ins
Facebook has Places so Google really couldn’t leave a check-in feature off their Google+ App! Hit the Tick button (sorry – check button) on your stream and then pick from a list of local places. This just uses places that are already defined on Google Maps.

Photos
This is fairly basic on the web-app unfortunately. You can view your own photos. profile pictures and photo’s from people in your circles – but as yet no opportunity to upload photos direct from your iPhone – although this feature will obviously be in the full app (as well as video uploads you would imagine)

Circles
Check out your circles and who’s in them, and click on their details to see their profiles. No opportunity to add or remove people from circles here – but again – the full App will surely have this functionality

So that’s about it for the Google+ iPhone Web App. Its not fully functional by any means, but it’s really clean and simple.


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