Google Wave already working on iPhone

If you haven’t heard of Google Wave yet, you soon will. It’s being proclaimed by its makers as the future of online communication, bringing together email, instant messaging, social networking and a whole heap of other stuff that we all log onto separately each day.

To quote co-creator Lars Rasumussen: “Wave is what email would look like if it were invented today.”

The application is barely into its beta testing phase, but the surprising news is that it already works beautifully on iPhone.

Navigate to wave.google.com on your Apple device and you’ll be warned that you’re not using a supported browser, but skip through this and you’ll a find a perfectly aligned mobile version of Google Wave, complete with custom-made touch controls.

Of course, this being a Google app, it’ll work just as well on an Android device, and probably any other modern smart phone.

What makes the iPhone access interesting in particular is that if you pin a shortcut to Wave to your Home screen and launch from there, all the Safari browser gubbins will be removed and Wave will launch as if it were a regular app.

Google is clearly laying the foundations for a big push onto virtually every connected device with its forthcoming Wave software, as evidenced by these early efforts to get it running perfectly on a rival device.