Google outs Easter Egg in Google Mobile iPhone app

Posted by Kelly Hodgkins on Jan 2, 2009 11:28 am 11 comments

Filed in Apple, News

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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Tags: Apple, Easter Egg, google, iPhone, Mobile app

11 comment(s) for this post.

On Jan 2, 2009 @ 11:36 am, Mike Said:

Nice find !

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On Jan 2, 2009 @ 11:37 am, Mike Said:

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

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On Jan 2, 2009 @ 11:49 am, Anthony Dadlani Said:

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

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On Jan 2, 2009 @ 12:14 pm, John Ong Said:

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

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On Jan 2, 2009 @ 1:20 pm, FC1 Said:

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

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On Jan 2, 2009 @ 3:52 pm, thebeav Said:

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.

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On Jan 2, 2009 @ 6:24 pm, backbeat Said:

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

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On Jan 2, 2009 @ 7:29 pm, p51d007 Said:

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.

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On Jan 2, 2009 @ 7:49 pm, Manzura Said:

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…

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On Jan 3, 2009 @ 1:21 am, Mockerfab4 Said:

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.

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On Jan 3, 2009 @ 8:37 am, drunknbass Said:

@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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