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Google Launches Mobile Mail
lazy_hp writes "Google has launched mobile phone version of Gmail. The service automatically optimizes the interface for the phone you're using and also 'Lets you reply by call to people whose phone numbers are in your Gmail Contacts list'. Technewsworld has a story on this. From the article: 'Gmail is now a kind of hub for Google ... GoogleTalk and a range of personalized services are all tied in together through Gmail registration. The more registration data collected by Google, the more relevant search results and ads can potentially be.'"
"From the article: 'Gmail is now a kind of hub for Google ... GoogleTalk and a range of personalized services are all tied in together through Gmail registration. The more registration data collected by Google, the more relevant search results and ads can potentially be.'"
Integration makes it a better experience for us end users also. I'm just waiting for more features from Gtalk.
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So you can then phone home to let your loved ones know what your coordinates really are, +/-10 metres.
I tried it on my mobile but it is unable to open it. Try opening http://m.gmail.com/ in opera.
XML parsing failed: mismatched tag (Line: 27, Character: 439)
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If they had WAP support, then I'd be immediately interested... Oh well, maybe soon they'll be selling HTML-capable phones that are small enough for my pocket and I'll upgrade...
"Analysts noted that like all Web-based services, Gmail has technically always been accessible from Web-ready mobile phones. But the Web version was often difficult to read on all but high-end mobile devices, with the browser window on smaller handhelds only displaying a part of the actual Web page."
"'This is mobile e-mail for the rest of us, who have normal or tiny screens,' said Kelsey Group managing editor Greg Sterling."
That's sounds really great for users -- that could be a truly decisive feature, for those who need email access on the road, but for some reason don't already own a blackberry.
Also, is there anyway that MicroSoft can beat back the Google threat on the mobile front, based on the fact that they make the OS that many of these phones use?
It seems that if there is a browser, Google can somehow deliver services to it. So the fact that Windows is on many of these phones won't mean much. I wouldn't put it past Gates or Ballmer to crippled the browser if they thought it would help though -- but that would really be cutting off their testicles to spite their penis. Or however that saying goes.
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I have (or had?) a Google Mail and Orkut account, which four days ago they closed down. God knows why, I've had the email account around a year, and the Orkut account around 3 months, but I've rarely used them. I've maybe sent 5 email from Gmail, and used Orkut for around 30 minutes more for curiosity than anything else.
Anyway, tried to get logged in to Google and couldn't. I've absolutely no idea why they'd decide to bar my account. Emailed the address they gave, had an auto-response back and instructions to reply if that didn't help. Replied I did, and I'm still waiting.
If this had been my primary mail account, I'd have been *pissed*.
For all these services sound the business, I'm reminded now why I run my own IMAP server. Functionality may be basic, but I 'own' my emails and run SquirrelMail so I can get at them via the web if needs be... Ad-free.
If the choice is between fewer features, but knowing my email is mine, I'll go with the first option any day.
Just wonder *when* Google will get back to me...
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On a sidenote: instead of the folks at Google adding new functionality of doubtful usefulness (autoresponders are the root of all evil in the corporate environment, right up there with running MS Exchange servers), can't they please finally let me delete or archive more than 100 messages at a time?
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I just tried this from France (wireless provider: Orange). My phone is listed as working but my wireless provider is not listed, obviously, since it's supposed to work only in the US. I wonder why it would work only in the US and not in the rest of the world. Any idea?
In this case it was probably a sensible choice. There are phones out there that only support the XHTML mobile profile or XHTML basic, and while they'll attempt to render normal XHTML documents they don't have a "tag-soup" parser available to try to render normal HTML. All of the latest phones have browsers capable of rendering normal pages (Opera with its small screen rendering, for example) but I think Google is also catering to the previous generation where XHTML support was just hacked on top of the WML (WAP markup) support using the existing XML parser.
If you are somehow able to log in, you will see that there is no beta tag anywhere. One of the first products from google that is not a beta or they forgot to add the tagline.
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I been using my gmail account from my phone for a while. Its the normal gmail.com not the m.gmail.com version. It is just like using a non-java browser works very well and uses very little data ~1M per month.
Here's a review with screenshots as seen on a BlackBerry 7100g.
Dose not work with my Treo 600 =(
Google farts.
I swear I saw a "Google Launches ..." headline last week and the week before and..
They have a lite version where you can access Gmail without ads.
The wap version where you can access Gmail via any WAP enabled device.
Im comfortable with these services., as a matter of fact Gmail lite from gmailwireless.com loads 100% faster than original GMail.com., Best of all you dont have any Crazy Ajax stuff that sucks my FireFox's Memory.
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One gripe on my Nokia 6230 is that I need to enter my login details at each step - to access the inbox, then to reply, etc. This doesn't happen with my friend that uses O2 (I'm on Vodafone), and I've checked all the cookie and security settings on my phone. I raised this issue with Google and got an immediate response - the phone and network are currently unsupported by Gmail mobile. Does anyone have any similar experiences and suggested workarounds?
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It's times like this I wish I'd chosen a shorter passphrase with less symbols. I truly hope m.gmail.com 'remembers me'. :)
Very old, very cheap, Siemens MC60 on the Tescos O2 pay-as-you-blow network (UK) works perfectly. This is free for me by the way; does anyone else pay for GPRS on Tescos O2?
Normally when I try and surf the web on my phone it looks a mess, important bits are missing or the phone runs out of memory because the page is too large. Gmail did not suffer from any of these problems.
1. The interface is typical Google clean.
2. Large emails, like 'eBay Item Sold: Mini...' emails, are split up into smaller pieces with a 'Page 2 of 5' link at the bottom. No more out of memory problems
I didn't try anything else out because this fits my needs perfectly.
The question on my lips now is: why has something like this taken so long to get right?
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It has everything goodlge offers and more..... and has been for much longer tooo. Oddly they released a beta on the same day as google for mobile email (their 2nd one). and yes it works on my blackberry
Has Google just made themselves a target for Patent litigation from NTP?
Tried it on the new ROKR iTunes phone and it doesn't work.
Gives the login window under a bunch of crap - but the login button doesn't work.
Looks the same as going to the normal gmail url. The login button doesn't work there either.
I can't use m.gmail.com using my Blackberry WAP browser, while Yahoo! mail (from wap.yahoo.com) works great!
How hard is it, in this day and age, to have a CSS that is WAP-friendly???? If Google would like to hire me, I can have it in a day or two, and you could have wap.gmail.com!
http://www.shapeservices.com/eng/im/GMAIL/ Someone's selling Blackberries dedicated to their use to check Gmail emails.
Thanks, G.
Try this:
1. Create a new email account somewhere.
2. Invite the person at that address to join gmail.
3. Google has just sold that email address to SPAMMERS.
No, really try it. I'm f@#!$! pi55ed at Google!!!!!!!!
I guess they don't consider selling that email address "evil." Or maybe it's not evil because they gave it away to some poor SPAMMER in a third world country?
[I was going to switch my business, email accounts to Gmail, but first I had to create invite emails. Brand new email addresses (I own my own domain thus can create as many as I want), and the're getting SPAM now.]
"Gmail is now a kind of hub for Google ... GoogleTalk and a range of personalized services are all tied in together through Gmail registration."
.NET Passport program...
Actually, it started with Gmail, but now Gmail registration is merely a part of Google Accounts, which is for Google Talk, Personal Homepage, Gmail, personalized search, preferences and more. Looks kind of like the Microsoft
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My gmail on my mobile devices shows differently on every device. Pocket IE displays the basic gmail, Netfront shows a closer version to the AJAX desktop version. WAP doesn't work at all. Gmail probably has the best support short of hotmail (Microsoft loves to make sites compatible with Pocket IE) for mobiles, but all of them are far short of usable like the desktop.
I'm really lost in finding a solution. No mobile web browser can compete with the desktop ones, based mostly on memory and processor limitations. Standards are becoming too hard to catch up with for the mobile end. I'm thinking the only solution is for these web designers to actually test a mobile version on various devices.
Slashdot looks great on my PDA (I'm on it now). Gmail is getting closer. Even with these two looking decent, they aren't good enough. Why are companies spending money adding new features when the web sites still don't render perfectly? Get the code and interface stable across the mobile platforms and THEN add features.
Email-via-web-pages seems a terrible idea of cellphones. My Sony Ericsson T616 does email via IMAP. It works great, the phone has more knowledge about emails and how to display them, it integrates into the phone's contact list, the phone can poll every 5 minutes for mail, and it displays a little icon at the top of the screen showing how many emails you have waiting.
This is surely The Right Way To Do It. And mobile gmail is an unpleasant compromise for less-able phones.
Now a days slashdot is posting the news very late. I tried to submit the same news 3 days back and they rejected. I dont know based onw hat critiria they reject the postings?
I received this message from my Nokia 2280:
It looks like your phone doesn't support Gmail. To try anyway please [click here].
And then,
406: Not Acceptable
1015: Invalide content type.
Great that Google finally decided to make it available on mobile platforms - but I much prefer the http://gmobile.sourceforge.net/ project.
... Once I authenticate ( Mozilla Browser ) on the regular site, I can then access the m.gmail.com without authenticating again.
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Can Slashdot just put a link to Google Blog on left navigation bar, instead of posting each story from it? And that too late by an eon!
I'm using a Nokia 6600 with the Opera web browser.
I had the same exact problem as you.
The workaround is to go to the regular gmail login page, log in to give your browser a cookie (check off "remember me"), then try again.
I assume they will fix that soon, but I now have it workin great!
Alas, I could not connect using the HTTPS protocol to keep all comm secure. Odd because I got a certificate acceptance message and THEN it failed.
First, let me say that I had been using Gmail Lite (free service) for a few months now. It worked decently on my phone (Sharp 903SH), but I had to log in every time I wanted to use it. I started using http://m.gmail.com/ and it works like a charm. Extremely fast (even on T-Mobile's $5.99/mo unlimited web plan!), and practical to use (maintains my login). I tend to like products with a small but well thought-out feature set (simplicity leads to fewer problems and inconveniences down the road), but I would like to see one feature added to this: attachments. My phone has a particularly good camera, and it would be terrific to be able to (1)Send photos I take directly from my phone (my JP firmware doesn't have POP mail built-in) and (2)View photos attached to messages. Maybe I'm seeing something wrong in the settings here, but I haven't been able to view/send attachments yet.
It works great on my Palm T5. The same clean interface you expect from Google and it combines emails into easy to use conversations. I may never use Versamail again.