Tap 'more' a second time to reveal two menus of Google products.<\/p><\/div>\n
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That big white space at the top? At first I thought it was reserved for ads, but when Google+ users are signed in, that space is filled with your user image, name, and email address.<\/p>\n
Signing in also adds a Notifications button alongside Search and Apps, which provides a handy Google+ notification count. When tapped, the most recent notifications are listed. Finally, Google+ users see a Google+ icon in the Apps menu instead of a Google Buzz icon.<\/p>\n
With this remarkable mobile upgrade, Google nudges users to take advantage of their mobile product interfaces rather than standalone apps. While that seems an odd fit to an Android user (we do love our apps), it makes perfect sense for the market in general.<\/p>\n
Now iPhone and Palm users have easy, direct access to a wider variety of Google products without the company putting time and energy into creating an app for each platform.<\/p>\n
More importantly, Google won’t have to hope users will find and bookmark their various mobile web applications. Instead, they’ve done the work and built an easy-to-find shortcut into the Google homepage, giving mobile users one more reason to make Google their mobile starting point every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Amidst all the well-deserved hullabaloo over last week’s big Google+ release (Who isn’t salivating?), Google began making some tweaks to their mobile web user interface (UI). It seems that Google didn’t make any announcement about the upgrade, instead leaving users to find the changes on their own. Well, the heck with that. Here at Techcitement, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[241,311,74,319,313,312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1095,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}