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Gmail Mobile Peps New Web Interface
Techtree News Staff, Apr 09, 2009 1031 hrs ISTFor iPhone and Android platform only
Gmail has announced a new web interface for iPhone and Android platform based mobile web browsers. Built over a new engine, this Gmail Mobile interface closely resembles the Gmail Desktop version. The whole mail browsing, reading and composing experience has become faster, even over weak network connections.
Google's Gmail team had introduced the Gmail Mobile interface for iPhone last year in January with pre-fetching and auto-complete features. Now, the Gmail team brought all new Gmail Desktop-like browser interface with the help of technologies like HTML5 and Google Gears. Head to http://gmail.com from mobile Safari browser on your iPhone or iPod Touch (over WiFi) to check out new Gmail Mobile interface.
The user interface has been optimized for snazzier inbox, a new 'floaty bar' and offline Gmail support. The new floaty bar allows archiving, deleting or more options for the email like Mark as Unread, Add star or Report as Spam. This floaty bar follows as one scrolls down further to select more emails. Navigation and display of threaded email conversations has been simplified and made faster.
Searching specific mails quickly is possible by poking the Magnifier button representing search. More messages can be viewed by hitting 'Show more messages' and the page hardly takes half a second to load more emails.
The new Gmail for Mobile is available on Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices with firmware 2.2.1 or higher. All Android-powered phones are supported.
The iPhone OS 3.0 brings landscape keyboard support in the Mail application but it still takes a while to load messages. Scrolling between the messages often results in sore fingers. Also, search emails and labels are still difficult to use. However, the Gmail team has made many Gmail fans happy with the new desktop-like mobile web interface iPhone and Android platform.
Google's Gmail team had introduced the Gmail Mobile interface for iPhone last year in January with pre-fetching and auto-complete features. Now, the Gmail team brought all new Gmail Desktop-like browser interface with the help of technologies like HTML5 and Google Gears. Head to http://gmail.com from mobile Safari browser on your iPhone or iPod Touch (over WiFi) to check out new Gmail Mobile interface.
The user interface has been optimized for snazzier inbox, a new 'floaty bar' and offline Gmail support. The new floaty bar allows archiving, deleting or more options for the email like Mark as Unread, Add star or Report as Spam. This floaty bar follows as one scrolls down further to select more emails. Navigation and display of threaded email conversations has been simplified and made faster.
Searching specific mails quickly is possible by poking the Magnifier button representing search. More messages can be viewed by hitting 'Show more messages' and the page hardly takes half a second to load more emails.
The new Gmail for Mobile is available on Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices with firmware 2.2.1 or higher. All Android-powered phones are supported.
The iPhone OS 3.0 brings landscape keyboard support in the Mail application but it still takes a while to load messages. Scrolling between the messages often results in sore fingers. Also, search emails and labels are still difficult to use. However, the Gmail team has made many Gmail fans happy with the new desktop-like mobile web interface iPhone and Android platform.
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