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- 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.
- Also, Gmail for mobile 2.0 is available in over 35 languages now. Please note, though, that not all features are available for all phones.
So, wow – we even get some “basic offline support” with the new version, and the “smooth scrolling” is a neat little iPhone-esque visual candy treat.
Indeed, about the only phone on the planet you can’t use the new version of Gmail on is an iPhone itself, but the customised Gmail interface through Safari is still very cool and I do enjoy using it – with the exception that formatted emails sometimes scroll off the side of the screen.
To fix that, I simply view Gmail in “desktop mode” on my iPhone, which then shows me formatted emails properly, but I do wish there was a “quick button” to press within each message to take me to the desktop version of any email if I so desire – perhaps they’ll add that in the future.
Also - if you're a Nokia user, make sure to go to your Apps folder, then "installed apps". Scroll down to Gmail, and go into the settings. Note: this is NOT the settings from within the Gmail app itself (which you should take a look at as there are details about label views, restoring the display of the number of kilobytes used in loading new messages and a few other tweakables) but the settings that determine how often you are bugged about getting permission to connect to the Internet.
In the meantime, if you’ve ever been annoyed by Gmail taking forever to load on your Nokia or other device, uninstall it immediately – and replace it with Gmail for mobile 2.0!
As Derek Phillips says in his blog, go to http://m.google.com/mail in your mobile browser to download the new Gmail for mobile for your phone.
David Bass
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