Most people would assume that an iPhone app called simply 'Google Wave' would be an official Google Wave app made by Google.

Think again. The app (App Store link) is the work of an indie developer called CLapps, who points out in its official description that "I have no connection with Google or Google Wave but just supply a means by which to use it on your iPhone".

We sense Google's lawyers may have something to say about that, not to mention some questions for Apple about how an unofficial app with the same name as its high-profile new service was approved for distribution on the App Store.

You can't imagine an app called Apple iTunes sneaking through, after all...

That's not to say the app itself isn't interesting - it looks like a neat way to access Google's online collaboration service on the go.