Get sick and try Gmail Mobile

Posted: November 10th, 2006 | Author: dotblack | Filed under: Mobile-Web, Tech | Comments Off

I’ve been under the weather for the past few days, flue and fever all the time. Been spending most of my days either in bed or just lying down. But did I get my new black MacBook on my lap to check mail? I didn’t. To be honest I didn’t touch my laptop, all I was doing was striking the keys on my mobile keypad. Isn’t that so amazing? And on top of all that I used Gmail Mobile client that I posted about last week. I found out more about it.

Shortcuts feel better on Mobile

Keypad shortcuts are amazing in Gmail Mobile client, they make your tasks as easy as making mouse clicks, even easier, you know how keypads are more handy. While the web-based version of the Gmail for mobile was cool, the client is a connected application, it’s completely there with all the context menus for every message and not forgetting how easy it is to remember the few tasks’ shortcut keys.

1 = Search in e-mails
2 = Compose Mail
3 = Mark as read
* = Add Star
8 = Report spam
7 = Delete
4 = Reply
6 = Forward
0 = Goto Inbox

I wrote the above list in the order that I remembered them trying to test what I’ve learned so far.

Composing and replying

For a spell-check (F7 in Word) lover, a text-area without a spell checker does not count as a console for sending e-mails, but still works, you know, use the so-called internet lingo, and feel as if you’re actually sending an SMS, that makes it easier to write, and guess what, unless you’re writing to a top executive who you haven’t sent anything before, don’t worry, it always gets understood, and it’s cool. I’ve been replying back with 2 liners the whole last week. That was a cool find out.

You contact list in the palm of your hand

Once you want to send an email, you compose, and come to type in a to address, and bam! You get all your Gmail contacts in your face, without even syncing your phone with outlook or entourage, isn’t that something? I certainly think that is! Big time.

Attachments without having MS Word or Adobe PDF

Note that I’m using a small handy mobile, not a smart-phone, nor a PDA. So having opening Word files is a miracle to my mobile. Now guess what, Google Mobile client opens and reads PDF, Word, Excel and Images as of the attachments that I’ve received. I was shocked to see that it actually shows the list of files in Zip files as well, only the list of content, but even that’s amazing!

If I ever learned anything from the last week, it’d be how nice it is to be able to think of e-mails as SMS, I actually spend a total of 2 hours a day only on e-mails(writing and responding), Gmail Mobile client is a big blow to all the push e-mail devices out in the market.

You still don’t have the the Google Mobile client? Point your mobile-browser to www.gmail.com/app and download it.

Don’t tell me you still don’t have a Gmail account! This is a good reason to get you one!

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