Google outs Easter Egg in Google Mobile iPhone app

By on Jan 2, 2009 at 11:28 AM
News January 2, 2009

Google Mobile App iPhone

Everyone loves a good Easter Egg and it looks like Google decided to add a few little treats to one of its iPhone apps. The Google Mobile App has some hidden menus that allow you to access a few fairly useless but entertaining features. It takes some perseverance but if you continue to swipe upward on the “About” screen, a new menu item “Bells and Whistles” will appear. Click on the new “Bells and Whistles” menu and you will be able to change the color of the application, change the default sound to a monkey or a chicken, select a waveform to appear when you talk and set the option to open links within the application (the one useful feature). Enjoy!

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  • Mike

    Nice find !

  • http://boygenuisreport.com Mike

    1st… and I’m thinking of getting 2 iPhones today !!!

  • http://www.thecreatingwealthblog.com Anthony Dadlani

    What a great way to create buzz. Google is taken a marketing trick from the Apple playbook……

    Gotta love this marriage.

    I am a contributor on http://www.thecreatingwealthblog.com

  • http://OnglinePodcast.com John Ong

    Not on “About” page, but on the “Settings” page.

  • FC1

    Oh Gawd!!! I wish I had an iPhone so I could have that kickass feature on my smartphone.

  • thebeav

    Just what I want….my phone that I use as my business device making sounds like a monkey or a chicken during a business meeting.

    One more point AGAINST the iPhone as a business device.

    Blackberry FTW.

  • backbeat

    @thebeav: Only if that is how you _choose_ to humiliate yourself. ;)

  • p51d007

    How nice! Instead of creating a stable application…they would rather throw CRAP into a device they want to market as a business device….sorry…you FAIL.

  • Manzura

    If you go to Safari (on iPhone) and type “youtube://” ( without quotation marks and without http, of course) it will close Safari and open a weird youtube video…

  • Mockerfab4

    thanks for this! Loved the monkey sound. ;)

    And Manzura. Thanks for that find. I tried it and got some Youtube vid of some Italian guy. Too weird.

  • http://www.monsterandfriends.com drunknbass

    @thebeav, ..your serious? You don’t need either. The only meetings you prob have are in the mop room discussing what toilet to clean first.
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  • http://www.pennygamer.com Penny Gamer

    Have to love Easter eggs! I’ll never understand why more development studios don’t budget for them. Just look at the publicity they bring you…not to mention the inbound links from bloggers (SEO gold!). Hear that devs? Budget for Easter eggs! Get people talking about your game!

  • Jewelzz

    No easter egg here :(

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