Google outs Easter Egg in Google Mobile iPhone app
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!
Nice find !
1st… and I’m thinking of getting 2 iPhones today !!!
What a great way to create buzz. Google is taken a marketing trick from the Apple playbook……
Gotta love this marriage.
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Not on “About” page, but on the “Settings” page.
Oh Gawd!!! I wish I had an iPhone so I could have that kickass feature on my smartphone.
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.
@thebeav: Only if that is how you _choose_ to humiliate yourself.
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.
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…
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.
@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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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!
No easter egg here