Google Plus, the search giant’s latest try at social media, seems to be taking off<\/a>. I’m not going to try to explain Google Plus here. If you need an introduction to it a couple of good ones are Google’s interactive tutorial<\/a> and and Paul Boutin’s clear description of the basics<\/a>. This post is a look at the available options for using Plus on a mobile device.<\/p>\n
The richest Google Plus experience is with the official Android app<\/a> which requires Android 2.1 or latter. Almost as good is the iOS app for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch<\/a> running iOS 4.0 or latter.<\/p>\n
For everyone else there are two mobile Webapps which Google calls “Mobile<\/em>” and “Basic Mobile<\/em>“. I’m going to call the “Mobile<\/em>” version “Rich Mobile<\/em>” to more clearly distinguish it from the “Basic Mobile<\/em>” one. The table below from the Google Plus online help<\/a> summarizes the features of each version:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n