Indicating that its Web Application priority extends to the mobile world, Google on Wednesday demonstrated a version of Gmail for the iPhone, which could be used, even if your phone has no connection to the network.

Vic Gundotra, Google vice president of development, to leave the show in 2009 GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, which he called “technical concepts” Gmail even when the iPhone has been disconnected. In January, Google released an offline version of Gmail for desktop and laptop computers, and it is like a mobile phone in the incarnation Web-browser, and not as a native application.

The software does not let Gundotra viewing and reading e-mails, even after he moved to the phone in airplane mode, which trims the wireless network. To view a demonstration, check the demo video on iPhone Buzz.

Offline applications, of course, can not receive new data from the network, but they are synchronized when the network access will be restored. Meanwhile, e-mail stored in the local database on the phone, even online.

“You are that this is a very, very quickly, because he was using a database that local”, Gundotra said. The statement also showed a floating toolbar that has been evident even as he scrolled through his in box.

This is significant for several reasons that Google is eyeing a new version of its Gmail web-interface applications for the iPhone. On the one hand, companies want to bring to all iPhone features Gmail - search, labels, and talk, for example - and the Apple built-mail application lacks these abilities. But in a broader sense, the shift is important because it shows you how Web applications can bypass the control of the company, such as Apple or Microsoft on computer technology.

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(Author: Crave UK) Apple has made great strides in its App Store, which allows people to download and buy software for the iPhone and IPod Touch. But he controls, that the pipeline, and it just may put the software for these devices. Web applications run in a browser, as well as all smartphones have browsers - although, of course, hardware and network limitations, usually means that they are anemic compared with the desktop version.

If the question of the power of Web applications, was lost on observers, Gundotra showed the same Gmail software, running on HTC Magic, a new phone using Google Android operating system.

“Now you have the opportunity to build app that covers the device until the device implements the latest specification of these modern HTML 5 browsers”, Gundotra said.

Mobile phone version of Gmail program uses a slightly different approach in order to access offline.

If the desktop version of Google developed using open-source browser plug-in called Gears, to maintain in the offline mode, iPhone version is used in offline data storage standard HTML 5, is gradually emerging repairing the language used to describe web pages. This technology can cache the state of applications and data, such as the message.

Of course, to get a modern, full-featured web browser on your computer with more memory, is quite difficult, and mobile browsers, generally lagging behind PC version. However, it should be noted that Safari on the iPhone, as the browser Android, based on the WebKit open source project, and WebKit was building in the offline support. Thus, at least for some higher end phones, the Internet version of Gmail offline version may be sooner rather than later.