Comments on: Google is completely iPhonified http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-is-compl/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Art Kavanagh http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-is-compl/#comment-397056 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:49:54 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/google-is-compl#comment-397056

Doesn’t work for me. I’m not sure whether this is because I’m using the iPod touch (rather than the iPhone), or because I’m not in the US but in France. When I go to google.com, I get redirected to google.fr. When I go to google.co.uk I’m not redirected. But in either case I get the old mobile site.

]]> By: Sumocat http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-is-compl/#comment-397057 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:32:56 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/google-is-compl#comment-397057

Kirwoodd: I don’t understand your point. Kevin’s showing off the iPhone-optimized Google Mobile interface, which relies on Internet connectivity regardless of device. As far as I know, the native iPhone mail app stores old emails just fine (within limits, of course).

]]> By: Donovan http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-is-compl/#comment-397058 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:36:12 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/google-is-compl#comment-397058

Looks like google.ca is not set up yet, but when I go to gmail it is the new interface by default.

Donovan

]]> By: Kevin C. Tofel http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-is-compl/#comment-397059 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:40:59 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/google-is-compl#comment-397059

Valid points but you’re not at a complete loss without connectivity. With EDGE coverage I don’t know if you’d ever be in a non-connected state, but I just simulate it by putting my iPhone in Airplane mode. I was able to compose a message in mail client that will be sent once I turn the radios back on. The client says “1 Unsent Message” in the footer of the app. I have full access to every e-mail in my Inbox, but I don’t have many there to be honest… only 24. Mail in my IMAP folders is not accessible without connectivity and that’s a killer but ONLY when you have zero connectivity. While it’s not an ideal solution, I rarely don’t have connectivity on the device. If I were on a plane perhaps, but that’s rare for me personally.

]]> By: Keith http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-is-compl/#comment-397060 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:18:46 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/google-is-compl#comment-397060

I’m not sure how IMAP works, can it be set to save all your emails from the last x days to the device’s storage as they come in?

Anyway, everyone is saying iPhone-friendly, I’m seeing Android-friendly as well. Might have to play around with the emulator some more tonight!

]]> By: Kirwoodd http://gigaom.com/mobile/google-is-compl/#comment-397061 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:29:02 +0000 http://jkontherun.wordpress.com/2007/12/05/google-is-compl#comment-397061

Well, it is pretty cool, but its still a web page, and not an application that runs on the device, in this case an iPhone.

So if you are somewhere with bad/no connectivity you can’t read your old emails? or compose new ones? With my BB I can do that, and its super handy. Also, even when you are in a good service area, you still have to load the page and the messages.
Too
Slow

Now, once the iPhone is opened up and we can get nice mail applications that run on the device including a cache to hold messages…

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