Monday, December 13, 2010

你好, नमस्ते and bonjour to better mobile web Gmail

There are many ways to get your Gmail on your phone. The mobile webapp version of Gmail (which you can get to by going to gmail.com in your browser) is the best way to get the most Gmail features on your iPhone or Android-powered device. Features such as search, stars, labels and threaded conversations all work in the mobile webapp just as they do in the desktop Gmail experience. Today, we’re bringing the latest version of our HTML5 webapp to 44 new languages.



Before today, this new version was only available for U.S. English, but we’re now expanding to Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK and American), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian (Bokmal), Polish, Portuguese (for both Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (for both Spain and South America), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, Urdu and Vietnamese.

If your phone’s default language is one of those listed, go to gmail.com in your phone’s browser and the new interface will appear in your language automatically. We’ve been rolling these changes out, so some of you may have already seen them. You’ll get a bunch of new goodies including offline support, smart links (titles will appear in links for Google Maps, YouTube and Google Docs), the ability to add and remove labels, layout improvements and more—in addition to the existing features like starring, better threaded conversations and search.

This new version works for iPhones running iOS 2.2.1 and above, and all versions of Android. Go to gmail.com in the browser of your iPhone or Android-powered device to try it out, and if you have any feedback, let us know in our forum.

Posted by Scott Eblen, Product Manager

11 comments:

  1. Thanks for this great update.

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  2. This mobile site version is in many ways better and nicer than the Android App (version that can be used on Android up to 2.1).

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  3. What is the URL for using it with a symbian phone?

    It supports HTML5. And the previous iphone's gmail version works great on it.

    Greetings

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  4. great .but we need in malayalam (indian local language) also

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  5. Will these changes be rolled out to Google Apps users as well?

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  6. Does Google have plans for Tamil Language?

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  7. No Arabic yet. a community of some 300 million speakers and a fast growing number of Andriod users. Yalla already!

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  8. I am impressed with the content of the article. I have been trying this method and I have seen some real improvements. This method is very useful.

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  9. this is a realy such as good for us that we can also use gmail in phone version !
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