Google updates 2 mobile services

Filed under: Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm, E-mail, Web services

Google updates 2 mobile services

by Brad Linder Oct 14th 2007

Google's mobile team seems to be keeping pretty busy these days. The company has released an updated version of Gmail Mobile, and Google Maps now works on phones running the Symbian operating system.

Not much more to say about the Symbian support, but Gmail Mobile 1.5 does seem to have a few features absent from version 1.1:

Display contact information including photo, email address, phone number, and notes when you click on a contact
Call a Gmail contact by clicking on their phone number, if available
Save draft e-mails
Monitor your bandwidth usage

The new version of Gmail also appends a "Sent from Gmail for mobile" message to every e-mail you send. But unlike some other free e-mail services, you can turn that annoying message off by adjusting your settings.
[via Google Operating System]

Tags: gmail, gmail-mobile, google-maps

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Guillermo said 10:14PM on 10-14-2007

ke, the previous version was a Java application. This is a native Symbian app, which loads and works much faster, looks better, and yeah, supports GPS.

I can barely look at the Java Gmail app now, I hope they're planning to release a Symbian version soon.

Guillermo said 10:14PM on 10-14-2007

ke said 10:14PM on 10-14-2007

Well I always thought Google maps suppored the Symbian OS.

I've had it on my phone for at least three months now, are they talking about Symbian GPS support perhaps?

Marcelo said 8:42AM on 10-15-2007

GREAT!! google is the number 1!!!

http://www.spymac.com/details/?2266728

Marc

bnosach said 2:26PM on 10-15-2007

T-Mobile still blocks third-party java apps on the majority of their phones. I can download GMail and GMaps, but T-Mobile doesn't allow them to recieve any data from the internet.

Kevin said 4:35PM on 10-15-2007

I have T-Mobile with the Pearl and they work fine for me. However, the GMail v.1.5 is not yet available for Blackberry.

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