Gmail 2.0 For Mobile Launcher
It has been officially announced by Google that Gmail 2.0 is now available for the Mobile Launcher. The version supports J2ME and BlackBerry phones!
It is available in 35 languages:
Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK), English (US), Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.
According to the Official Google Mobile Blog:
People use the Gmail client on their mobile phone all the time. Because of this, they are always looking for ways to make it faster, more robust and easier to use. Today, we’re thrilled that Gmail for mobile version 2.0 for J2ME-supported and BlackBerry phones is available. The focus for this version was to make the experience faster and more reliable. The entire client was redesigned 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.
So, what does this all mean for you?
- Overall performance improvement: You should experience significant raw speed improvement, smoother scrolling, and no freezing.
- Multiple accounts management: If you have both a Gmail and Google Apps email account, you can easily switch between them quickly. You will no longer have to use two different mobile apps to access personal and work emails.
- 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: If you have a QWERTY phone, you can use shortcut keys. Hit ‘z’ to undo, ‘k’ to go to a newer conversation, and ‘j’ to go to an older conversation. See Menu/Help in the app for more shortcuts.
- Basic offline support: Can’t get a signal? Not a problem. You can compose and read your most recent emails even when there is no signal. Also, any outgoing messages will be saved in the outbox on your phone and sent automatically when you’re back in coverage.
