Official Google Blog: Gmail mobile client is live
The new Gmail for mobile client launching today began life as a challenge: What if we could develop a Gmail application for cell phones that was as powerful and as easy to use as the desktop version? What if it ran on hundreds of different mobile devices — and made it possible to compose, read, and respond to conversations with a bare minimum of clicking and scrolling? What if it enabled you to do things like search your inbox, view your attachments (including pictures and PDF files), and click to call your Gmail contacts? And what if the app were designed to make the whole experience as fast and as seamless as possible?
Team stalwarts Jimmy Shih, Joanne McKinley, Derek Phillips and others worked hard to answer these questions, and the result is Gmail for mobile devices. It’s a small download, but one that might make you look at email on your phone in a different way — maybe like Gmail did for email when that first appeared. Download it now and decide for yourself!
I was excited that they had come out with this… until I saw the compatibility list. They list a number of models close to my current phone (a sch-a650) but it of course wasn’t on the list. I tried to download it anyways… but got a “406 Bad Content” warning. The phone I’m looking at getting in the next couple weeks, the Samsung SCH-a990 also isn’t on the list. So unless they add more phones in the next few weeks, I’ll still be out of luck. I am curious about where they got the emulators for testing this. Did they go through a specific carrier? I assume it wasn’t Verizon, since they where pushing my phone heavily when I got it, and the a990 is the top of it’s line also from Verizon.
That said, for those that have come to rely on gmail… this is good news for you. Check the compatibility list, and if you can use it, let me know what you think. I haven’t gotten the new phone yet, maybe one of my other lesser choices are/will be on the list.
Tags: Google, Interesting, Internet, Portable
I had luck in finding my phone V800 on the list of supported phones but still gut no luck in connecting to my mail account. I get “certificate not valid” error and I can’t sole it. But luckily I have my old mail app Movamail http://movamail.com/ that I use for over 6 months and I think I will not change mail client, et least not for now.