New Gmail Interface for iPhone and Android
The folks at Google today released a new, mobile browser-optimized version of Gmail for both the iPhone and Android phones. I’ve been using the new iPhone version — and it’s pretty sweet. Just go to Gmail on the browser and it senses these phones and gives you the new version.
Gmail now opens much faster and the interface has been tweaked to take advantage of both the iPhone screen and touch control. Archiving mail is especially quick as the mail is now cached on the device itself and not just on the server. This new version is super but does not work yet for corporate email yet from what I can see. (Google says these accounts work but I haven’t been able to get in yet)
(via gmailblog)
Wasnt Google getting rid of its iPhone optimized page because they wanted users to have the same mobile page?
Much better, but the first time you search for a term it is sloooow. Then it caches the result and is fast.
Also when I tried to view a pdf, it fired up a new window and sat there for a while and then timed out.
I wish someone would build a good native app that works well that does conversations and search well and for all my email accounts.
@gary: It’s probably not iPhone optimized as much as webkit optimized. Android, many Symbian phones, and the iPhone all use webkit browsers. The iphone, however, supports all this fancy HTML5 stuff for handling offline access. I’m not sure about Android or Symbian on that.