Race on for first Google Wave iPhone app

by Staff, revolutionmagazine.com 30-Oct-09, 14:30

LONDON - The race is on to release the first approved Google Wave iPhone app with two contenders already in the running.

One is called WaveBoard, which is already up and running as a Mac Google Wave desktop client. It is awaiting approval from the iPhone App Store.

Waveboard

The other potential candidate is an Adobe AIR application called Waver, which has been developed as "your tiny Google Wave client". The desktop version is also up and running, letting users view and reply to waves, create new waves and manage their Google Wave contacts from, as the app suggests, a tiny window.

Until the first app is approved, iPhone owners have to content themselves with accessing the site in their web browser wave.google.com/wave. Google confirmed this week that there are plans for a centralised place for Wave apps to be discovered and distributed, but with Google Wave still only in preview itself, not much else about the app store has yet been decided.