Google Demos Offline Gmail for the iPhone
Filed Under (Apple iPhone, Gadgets, Smartphones, Softwares) by admin on 24-02-2009 >> 67 views
Tagged Under : Gmail, Google, iPhone
You might already know that Gmail Labs had recently released the Offline Gmail feature which gives users access to their most recent emails even when there is no internet connection.
Google demonstrated this Offline Gmail feature on the iPhone 3G at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
If you are a Gmail user and prefer to use the web-based Gmail’s iPhone web app on your iPhone then you will be impressed.
Vic Gundotra, VP of Engineering at Google, demonstrated the Offline Gmail feature on an iPhone 3G at the Mobile World Congress that will give users access to their most recent emails even when there is no data connection.
Gundotra described the iPhone web app as a “technical concept” which relies on the latest HTML 5’s AppCache and Database standards.
As you can see from the demo, the iPhone web app using HTML 5 standards will not only allow users to access their mail offline, it also seems to be a lot faster.
Google hasn’t mentioned when they plan to release the Gmail web app using HTML 5 for the iPhone.
One of the reasons for moving to Gmail ages back and never looking back is the “conversation view” similar to an Internet forum. Unfortunately if you use iPhone’s Mail app then this feature is not available. So I would personally still like to see Google release a native iPhone app for Gmail with “conversation view” and new email notification that works.
But the demo of the iPhone web app using HTML5 standards was very impressive and we can expect Google to release Google Reader using these latest standards.
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