If you’re an iPhone owner and also happen to be a Gmail user, you may want to pay attention. Word on the street is that Google is putting the finishing touches on a native Gmail application for the iOS platform.
MG Siegler, an Apple columnist for TechCrunch, made the announcement last night. The tech writer has learned that Google is nearly finished with an iOS-flavored native Gmail app, and it’s headed for the App Store… Read More
Today, Google updated its mobile web app to fully support Apple’s Retina Display, bringing a crisper experience to those of us who use the web app in order to get full support for certain Gmail features, like labels.
The update, which is live for everyone right now, also adds an iOS feature that now seems to be synonymous with the platform: pull to refresh… Read More
If you’ve been looking for a more elegant way to mark your email in Apple’s Mail app, iOS 5 may have what you’re looking for. In iOS 5, you now have the ability to “Flag” messages in the Mail app as important. The flags can be used to access certain emails for quick reference, or show you what messages are the most important to you. Read More
The Gmail web app just keeps getting better and better! If you use the Gmail web app with Safari on your iPhone, you’ll be happy to know that Google has now updated Gmail’s web interface with an “undo” feature.
The web app will now allow users to undo an action such as archive, delete, add/remove a label, or move a message/conversation. When you select one of these actions, Gmail shows a yellow bar that displays what you just and allowing you to undo it, instead of having to dig the message out of the Trash. Read More
Gmail’s “Priority Inbox” feature has been implemented into Gmail’s web app on the iPhone. Priority Inbox is a relatively new feature in Gmail that helps show you the most important emails in your inbox.
Google’s Priority Inbox algorithm studies your email habits, and determines which messages deserve your attention first. If you’ve enabled Priority Inbox in the standard web version of Gmail, the same functionality will now be available in Gmail’s iOS web app…
The untethered society is becoming more of a reality each and every day, with the latest development being ubiquitous cloud printing from Google.
Google Cloud Print allows those of you on iOS devices to print directly from Google Docs Mobile or Mobile Gmail, over the air to any printer configured to use the service.
Details on how to set it up inside…
Since I’m a Gmail user, all of my email is already organized on Google’s servers before hitting my iPhone. This is done by means of filters, which are essentially rules in Outlook-speak.
Rules have been noticeably absent from the iPhone’s cache of email features, but that’s probably because most people have setups like I do, meaning that their email is sorted and filtered prior to being downloaded to the iPhone.
For those of you that don’t have this luxury, Mail Rules — a jailbreak tweak for iOS 3.2 and up — aims to fill in the gaps. But does the tweak’s shortcomings rule it out?
I can’t say that I use Gmail in mobile Safari too often, considering that the native Mail App has great support for Gmail, but there must be some of you crazy folks out there that still do.
Fret not, Google has heard your cries for an improved mobile Safari experience, they’ve seen your tears, and they’ve felt your pain. As a result, an updated version of Gmail for mobile Safari is now live at last.
What new features can you expect to see? Well, too be honest, they’re more on the aesthetics side of the house, meaning they don’t add much in the way new functionality. Check inside for the details on not one, but two new improvements for Gmail on mobile Safari… Read More
The Google Mobile application for the iPhone now offers push notifications for Gmail and the Google Calendar. The app is free in the App Store and is said to offer “real” notifications that give you message type previews.
Previously iPhone users were required to use a 3rd party service to bring these types of notifications to their iPhones. Also included in the app is “search as you type” results.
Let us know if you’re able to download the update and tell us how its working in our comment box.
You probably already know you can sync your Google emails, calendars and contacts with your iPhone using Google Sync. But do you know you can also sync your iPhone notes with your Gmail account?
The only requirement for being able to sync your notes with Gmail is that your iPhone be updated to iOS 4. When you set up your Gmail account on your iPhone, you will now have the option to sync your notes.
If you have several Gmail account set up on your iPhone, you will be able to sync your notes to specific accounts. In the top left corner of the Notes.app, a new button will appear letting you choose what account you want to sync with.
One downside to this is that it’s a one-way sync, which means that you can only sync your notes from your iPhone to your Gmail account. You can’t sync from Gmail notes to your iPhone.
