Google has released a new web version of Gmail, which offers iPhone and Android phone users with a more complex version of the online e-mail, including access to news, it’s faster, and that even when working offline.

Google has a mobile web version of Gmail, and last week announced its willingness Monday to Google’s blog for mobile devices. “You’ll see that much faster in carrying out actions as opening the e-mail, navigation, or search. And if the data network falls on you … you can still open a recently read messages, and to have a flaky or without network connection “, said Engineer Google Mobile Joanne McKinley.

Although new features are interesting, and I consider them a big step up that important in the bigger picture is that Google has shown how powerful mobile web browsers have become, not only to view Web-pages, but to run Web-based applications. This mobile Gmail application does not need to be downloaded through the Apple Store in the App or the company’s Google Android Market, it works after you specify the browser to gmail.com.

The fact that a website can support the iPhone and Android today, probably, Palm Until tomorrow is important to Google: through the use of the website, the company does not need to create separate applications for different devices, as was the case with the BlackBerry and Android, but no longer in iPhone.

The relative universality of the web-based application sheds light on the motivation for Google Android, too. Google has a serious interest in the mobile class of citizens on the Internet, to move that eventually will open new advertising opportunities for the search giant.

New Features
The new version of a much more complex than its predecessor - although not so detailed that there are ads, as in the normal version of Gmail. Among the new features:

• Multiple messages can be selected and then back up, remove, and also marked as read, unread, or spam.

• floating bar - the “floating bar” - traveling from the pages as you scroll through messages or through a field with individual messages, allowing you to take various measures, not having to scroll at the top or bottom of the page.

• Search button appears at the top of the screen for easy retrieval of old messages. Previously, he was buried at the bottom of the field.

However, offline access determines which applications separately. The application stores the e-mail by phone using the settling down is still HTML 5 standard for web design, and in the case of Android, using the Google Gears browser plug-in.

Faster than e-mail
This makes reading the messages offline. But it also makes reading messages faster because they do not have to be obtained from the network, as long as they have already been cached on the phone. I noticed a significant acceleration in the use of - once I experienced the initial wait, and to synchronize the messages were downloaded.

“Gmail for mobile allows you to common action, such as archive and transfer will be completed much faster than previous releases. When you first visit Gmail, you may notice that at the beginning of time a bit slower than usual. This is because we are downloading files over the network. However, once the files are downloaded, the next launch will be more consistent, regardless of the type of connection, “Google told me in his statement.

In standalone mode, let me write a message and click Send when access was restored, the Gmail application of the transfer actually took care of without any intervention on my part. Additionally, while offline, you can search I did recently on the Internet, although the new search is required to access the network.

The biggest part missing in my quick test will be able to add labels to messages. It is in the works, Google said:

“New Architecture of Gmail on the web-based application will allow us to implement new features much faster. The opportunity to add a shortcut is not available at this time, but it soon,” said Google. This statement intrigued me, as well as Google’s Gmail 2007 repair conventional browsers released a modular design that allows extensive configuration through Gmail Labs.

In the iPhone and Android versions of Gmail works the same as soon as I installed Gears on my T-Mobile G1 after the request from the “get a faster Gmail” invitation. In the iPhone version was faster, and it was inconvenient time display HTML format e-mail.