Google expanded its mobile features with a new mobile version of Google Calendar. The new service will allow Google Calendar users to access their schedules from their mobile phones.

“We realize that more people in the world have mobile phones than have computers, and people take their cellphones with them everywhere,” Google software engineer Devesh Parekh wrote in a post on the company’s Web site.

“It makes since to let them view appointments registered in their Google Calendar from handsets with Internet capability,” Parekh added.

The new service will complement to the full-blown Google Calendar rather than a complete calendar app.

The Google Blog reports that the mobile version of Calendar will display “your agenda of upcoming events complete with details like date, time, location, description, and guest list.”

In addition, the new service provides a link to Google Maps to find directions, as well as an option to add new appointments. It does not have, however, the useful option for changing or deleting existing appointments, according to IDG report.

The new mobile service should come in handy for users of Google Calendar who use the online service as their primary scheduling tool, but could prove clumsy and restricted for smart phone owners who can more quickly and easily synchronize their complete Outlook or Lotus Notes calendars with their computers.

Google said mobile users can point their phone to www.calendar.google.com. The service is free aside from carrier data charges.

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Entry was posted on Friday, May 25th, 2007 at 3:15 pm under Google, Technology.

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