Tuesday the release of significantly improved Web-Client for Gmail on the iPhone and Android phones was good, but it was still me salivating at the thought of native applications for iPhone. Over the past year, we are hounded from the Gmail Team, one was on the road, and the answer - in typical Google way that will not discuss products that have not been announced.

But this does not mean it can not work.

So let’s look at what the native Gmail application could give us for the fact that Apple is currently offering, and is set to release in the upcoming 3.0 firmware.

1. Push delivery / PUSH notification
Gmail for Android does something no other client in Gmail ago: press notices. This means that the second you get the message, he lets you know with a pop-up. The fastest you can set the iPhone email application Gmail to update it every 15 minutes. So can the native iPhone application to do the same thing as Gmail on Android? Probably.

The official Google representative told us that no other platform of the press service (including desktop clients), as well as other official Gmail native applications to automatically update every few minutes. In the upcoming firmware 3.0, Google can offer push notifications of new messages through Apple boost in the flow of data either in the form of badges, which are updated on the app icon, or a small preview that emerges from the first row or two of the message.

2. Offline / Gears
New version of Gmail for Android offline reading and composing, which means you can go through your mail and get a job, even if you do not have a connection. Despite the fact that the iPhone in the Mail application can read, save and create a message, do not download a large piece of your window, or all the applications that are with him, which means that you can be lucky if you can ‘T get online to view documents and spreadsheets. What we …

3. Application Processing
Annex viewing Gmail on the desktop can be an absolute joy. PDF, PowerPoint presentations and PDF-files can be viewed in HTML viewer, which allows a reduction in the initial time and the need for any special software. Despite the fact that the iPhone can view these relatives, it does not include the search and the ability to save the file locally. Local application can offer both.

In addition, when e-mail messages in the native Mail app, adding attachments is limited to photographs, that the upcoming firmware is much easier with a system-wide copy and paste. However, if you’re using a web client, it fails to local files, which means you’re stuck using the native app, if you want to add or take quick photos attached.

4. Smarter archive
Not all Gmail users to archive messages, probably because they do not understand what he was doing. Archiving takes a message from your window, while keeping it in your account that allows you to search later. This is a convenient feature, but on the native iPhone mail client, we just stuck with this forum, we do not want to see in our field, that contradicts the very principle of existence 7GB-mail storage.

You can archive messages by selecting them and moving them into the “All Mail” folder, but it is not as fast as an exception, which is less than two menu moves.

Web version of Gmail, you can archive and delete messages, and as a result of your box, load faster the next time you open it backup. In addition, the native client would be space to download messages to your offline cache.

Gmail in the list of tasks
5. Self-task list
Gmail to the list of tasks is not the most full-featured app for the list there, but it is very easy and convenient. With that in the native application will allow you to access it and make changes offline. Google may even allow users to create strict time limits for each element, which can be synced to your phone, calendar, and give you a buzz when they were done.

6. Combined contact look up
Here’s one problem: I have a list of contacts in my phone and another on Gmail. Of course Google has a formal decision, which will sync up and combine them into one massive list of contacts, but what if I want to save the two separated to keep my iPhone in the phone book a little less?

A native of the application will allow to sort that out by using the contacts on my phone, and provide quick auto-complete as you type suggestions for people on my contact list Gmail. Right now, enter the address of the native iPhone will only bring up Auto-complete, if the person is in my contact list, or if I had recently sent them a message.

7. Built-in chat
Instant messaging has become a big part of Gmail desktop version, but the iPhone it is relegated to a convenient finger browser versions that you sign when you close your browser or switching tabs. This is not a good solution. Why not build it into their version of Gmail on the phone, as it is on Android?

8. GPS and location awareness
Location is becoming an increasingly important part of mobile applications, and Gmail is different. When Google puts ads in the mobile version of Gmail, you can have a couple will play on the ground. Contextual information within your e-mail is one aspect, but if Google can find out where you are, and offer something more focused, then we can bet it will.

More importantly, it will open things for some extra fun, as well as the opportunity to announce its location in your signature. This feature, available on the desktop version, but will be much more useful when receiving messages from a mobile phone.

These are just a few reasons, the iPhone is long overdue its own Gmail Blvd. If you have any of their own, do not hesitate to leave them in the comments.

Update: made a clarification regarding the archiving of items in the native iPhone client.