Google introduced a Mobile version of its Email service known as Gmail on thursday.While youtube is set to go mobile within a year.Gmail Mobile is downloadable ,Free Java application,which has been designed for mobile devices like cell phones.the java application acts like an interface on the gmail site>it includes google's search features,a conversation window and auto sychronisation with google's desktop version.
Google says that the mobile client is 5 times faster than accessing Gmail from a mobile browser.the java application reduces the no clicks and time needed to click,compose and search for mails.
“We made the client application very fast,” said Tony Hsieh, a product manager- mobile team at Google. “When you start up the application, rather than just downloading the first 20 headers, you also download the first 20 bodies, depending on the phone’s memory. For most people, those are the common things people read, so it will be instantaneous.”
the application resizes pictures to make it viewable on
a mobile device screen.The application can be downloaded by pointing your mobile browsers to gmail.com/app .The program will work with phones having J2ME support.
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