Wednesday, 29 October 2008

Gmail for Mobile 2.0 Out Now

Google launched a new release of Gmail for Mobile. The Gmail for Mobile 2.0 designed to be faster and more reliable in low signal areas and to support basic offline access on phones like the Nokia N95, Sony Ericsson W910i, and BlackBerry Curve...

Google launched a new release of Gmail for Mobile. The Gmail for Mobile 2.0 designed to be faster and more reliable in low signal areas and to support basic offline access on phones like the Nokia N95, Sony Ericsson W910i, and BlackBerry Curve.

“Our focus for this version was to make the experience faster and more reliable. We rearchitected the entire client to push all the processing to the background, greatly improve the client-side caching scheme and optimize every bottleneck piece of code we came across,” according to Derek Phillips, Software Engineer, Google mobile team.

Gmail for Mobile 2.0 offers the following features:

· Overall performance improvement: You should experience significant raw speed improvement, smoother scrolling, and no freezing.
· Multiple accounts management: Gmail for mobile allows you to access multiple Gmail or Google Apps email accounts from the same application.
· Multiple mobile email drafts: You can save multiple email drafts in your mobile phone, so that you can pick and choose what you would like to send later.
· Powerful shortcut keys: It offers shortcut keys that enable users of phones equipped with QWERTY keyboards to press 'z' to undo, 'k' to go to a newer conversation, and 'j' to go to an older conversation.
· Basic offline support: The updated Gmail for Mobile boasts offline support, and lets users compose and read e-mail when there is no signal. Also, any outgoing messages will be saved in outbox of your phone and sent automatically when you're back in coverage.

The new application can be downloaded from the m.google.com/mail website. No word yet on when we might see the new 2.0 application for other smartphone platforms.