[Linux] Journal.

When I read that Google has opened up access to Gmail for mobile phones I was eager to give it a try. I opened up the default browser in my Sony Ericsson k700i phone and entered http://m.gmail.com. The page loaded fine, logged in, but it says I need to enable cookies on this browser… hum.

I doubt the default browser even has cookies support so I installed Opera Mini which is a J2ME browser. Loaded it, complained about the lack of encryption and displayed garbled output for the login page… hum. I tried going to the normal gmail page (http://www.gmail.com) and was able to login from there. I then opened http://m.gmail.com and voila! I was in.

The main page displayed what is in your inbox, links to compose, contacts, more views and a search box. When you click on a message thread it takes you to the conversation view like in Gmail and you can click on each conversation to see the full email. The contacts view shows links to the people whom you most frequently email and a search box to other contacts. When there is a number on the page you can select it and it would ask if you would like to call this number. Nifty.

Apart from the problematic initial setup, I’m quite happy with this service. Through Gmail’s search oriented design I could have access to all my emails and contacts with minimal amount of data transfer (though this depends on your inbox being relatively clean). The interface is clean and efficient. This could come in quite handy :).

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