If you have not had any luck installing the Gmail client for your smartphone, you're in luck. Google just released Gmail for Mobile 2.0
with J2ME support for many Blackberry models, such as the Blackberry
Pearl 8120 I'm testing right now. It also means that the best
cameraphone on the market, the Nokia N95 that shoots at 5 megapixels,
is also Gmail for Mobile-compatible.
This is great news for those who have struggled to get the
client to install. (Unfortunately, my Moto Q still doesn't work with
the new version.) Google didn't stop there, though. The new version is
worthy of the 2.0 moniker in that it runs noticeably faster. I found
that the Blakcberry ran as speedy as Gmail on the T-Mobile G1 for
e-mail searches, riffling through my 5.5GB of my Gmail in no time.
I have tested Gmail for Mobile on about 30 different phones over the
past year, and there is an obvious speed-up in the code, likely a
result of the work Google has done in speeding up Java applets and
getting Android out the door.
There's also a new offline mode, which points to a bright future for
people like me (and a friend I know who works in the insurance business
and relies on Gmail for Mobile) who lose their carrier signal on
country roads. Now, you can still access all of your mail, reply to
messages, and search your archive even when you are nowhere near a cell
tower - Gmail just syncs it all up when you re-connect. There's also a
way to save multiple e-mail drafts, and have multiple e-mail accounts
on the same phone. There's also a few new shortcuts -- Z for Undo, K
for newer conversations, etc.
I am a Gmail user on the desktop and on my phone. The one thing I'd
like to see implemented better on mobile is labels. I know I can access
them by wading through a few menu options, but I'd like to see actually
see them on-screen somehow, because I use them like crazy. Of course,
Win Mobile users would also love to be able to use the client at all.
Also, a people are commenting on the official Google Mobile blog
that version 2.0 is freezing for them on phones like the Nokia 2630 and
N82, so be careful out there. (It works on the Nokia E71, one user
reported.) I'm sure Google will work out these bugs, they almost always
do, unless of course it is not a bug but a feature.
Source : http://blogs.computerworld.com/
