Google’s iPhone app has a hidden menu (flag)

venturebeat.com — In November, Google launched voice search capabilities for its native iPhone application. It took a fairly pointless app and made it cool, interesting and useful. But alongside that update Google added a hidden menu, which it revealed today on the Google Mobile Blog . It may seem surprising ...

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Google Wants You To Know About Its Hidden iPhone App Menu
TechCrunch — Google put an easter egg in the menu of their iPhone application, but they hid it so well that no one stumbled upon it, so they simply decided to blog about it to reveal the gem. Venturebeat was first to report and has more screenshots. If you have the Google Mobile App installed on your iPhone, go to the Settings tab, scroll to the bottom and keep swiping upwards until a secret option dubbed ‘Bells and Whistles’ appears (this also works the foreign language versions of the app, and it will stay there once you’ve found it). ...

Google Reveals Hidden Menu in its Google Mobile App
iPhone Hacks — ... your finger upwards (quite a lot) to see the “Bells and Whistles” menu. Tapping on this menu reveals the extra options such as an option to change the apps color to anything you want, the option to have the app’s default sound replaced by monkey or chicken noises, an option to see live waveform show up as you talk and the option to open links in the app itself. [image] [image] [image] [image] A neat way to hide the Easter Egg. What do you think? [ Google Mobile Blog via Venture Beat ] [image] Follow this blog Top iPhone Hacks Categories: Hacks ...

Find the hidden menu in Google Mobile for iPhone
Download Squad — ... So, what are these bells and whistles? Some of them are actually sounds: you can replace the default sounds with chicken or monkey noises. You can also change the color of the Google Mobile theme and see a live waveform when you talk. This is all kind of fun, but not that useful. Oh, but wait: the reason you really want to find this easter egg is the "open links in app" option. Some commentators argue that it should have been there in the first place, and I'm inclined to agree with them. ...

Google Spreads Cheer in the New Year with Bling, Android Market
Google Watch — ... VentureBeat's MC Siegler was all over the options and had pics from playing with them here. It seems you can replace the default beeps that accompany speech recognition with chicken or monkey sounds. What? No aardvark mating calls? ...

Around the Web 1.2.09: Higher music sales, an Easter egg from Google and a key to unlock iPhones
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... -- It's never too early in the year for an Easter egg. One is discovered in Google's Voice Search iPhone App. VentureBeat ...

Google Reveals Hidden Menu in iPhone App
Cult of Mac — ... on the iPhone’s touch screen from the Settings menu. At first glance, there appears to be nothing below the tab labelled “About” but continue swiping upward on the screen (five swipes in my case), and a “Bells and Whistles” tab will appear. From the B&W tab you can change the app’s theme color, its default sound effect and more. OK. Now that’s out of the way, let’s see what else we can accomplish today… Via Venture Beat