11-05-2006, 01:00 AM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Google GMail App For Your Phone
http://www.google.com/mobile/gmail/
Well, just in case accessing your GMail via POP3 with Windows Mobile's Inbox app wasn't enough, or through the specially designed mobile page in Pocket Internet Explorer, or even via RSS feeds in your favorite mobile RSS client, Google has released yet another way to access your GMail on your phone, provided you can run Java.
Archiving an email and viewing 140 emails containing the word "watch."
For reading and replying, I prefer using Inbox because it is simple and straight forward. However this new client is quite handy because you have access to all of your Gmail, not just the last few days. Searching is very fast, you can see threads, you can archive, report spam and more with this client, things Inbox can't handle. If you have the ability to run Java apps on your Windows Mobile device, just go to http://www.gmail.com/app and download the client. As you can see above, it works just fine in the Midlet Manager that comes with the K-Jam over the T-Mobile USA network.  As an added bonus, when you tap on a link in a message, Google reformats the link to go through their proxy that reformats the page for your device. Once again, Google has released something new and I have to stand back and go "Well, that is just too cool."
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11-05-2006, 06:23 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 98
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Downloaded and set it up on my Cingular 8125. One question: Anyone have an idea how to add the Gmail midlet link in Pocket Plus?
Going to Today Screen>Items>Custom let's me see the My Midlets folder within the My Documents folder, but it will not let me access the contents.
Thanks.
Also, immediately after installing the Gmail app, I tried to log in but could not enter text in the boxes there. Soft resetting now. Hope it runs OK on this device. It says it should on their Help page.
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11-05-2006, 04:10 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 148
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It works fine on my HTC Star Trek, but it was clearly designed for a much lower resolution screen. The font is so small I can barely read it.
Unless someone has a way to increase the font size, I'm sticking with the web portal:
http://mail.google.com/mail
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11-06-2006, 01:55 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 378
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I followed the link: http://www.gmail.com/apps but I couldn't find the .jar/jad midlet files. Can anyone provide a direct link to them (as I use IBM J9 Midlet Manager on my non-phone edition PPC)?
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11-06-2006, 05:23 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 91
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Originally Posted by JesterMania
I followed the link: http://www.gmail.com/apps but I couldn't find the .jar/jad midlet files. Can anyone provide a direct link to them (as I use IBM J9 Midlet Manager on my non-phone edition PPC)? |
I second the call for a direct link, I keep getting redirected to regular gmail. Also does anyone know if you can use it for gmail-for-your-domain?
I really like the look opf the gmail app, but I'd like to use it for my main email address (hosted on gmail)
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11-06-2006, 04:06 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 378
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I grabbed the direct link to the .jad file from a WM5 phone edition emulator and the .jar file's link from the jad file contents.
gm-Generic-Advanced_MIDP2.jad
gmail-g.jar
I just tried it on the latest IBM J9 6.1 MIDP environment and it works flawlessly. I love it! :mrgreen:
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11-06-2006, 04:25 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 378
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Originally Posted by Ed@Brighthand
It works fine on my HTC Star Trek, but it was clearly designed for a much lower resolution screen. The font is so small I can barely read it.
Unless someone has a way to increase the font size, I'm sticking with the web portal:
http://mail.google.com/mail
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Menu->Go to->Settings and uncheck "Use small fonts"
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11-06-2006, 06:05 PM
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Contributing Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,389
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There is also a Google Maps Java applet.
http://www.google.com/gmm (from your mobile)
It works on my 8125
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11-06-2006, 07:17 PM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 1
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Originally Posted by JesterMania
I grabbed the direct link to the .jad file from a WM5 phone edition emulator and the .jar file's link from the jad file contents.
gm-Generic-Advanced_MIDP2.jad
gmail-g.jar
I just tried it on the latest IBM J9 6.1 MIDP environment and it works flawlessly. I love it! :mrgreen: |
With these files, how do I make it work in my ppc. Thanks
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11-06-2006, 09:28 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 378
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Originally Posted by winterises
With these files, how do I make it work in my ppc. Thanks
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If you don't have a PPC Phone Edition, then you need to install a Java Midlet environment. IBM offers a free midlet environment called J9, and you can get it here or search somewhere (such as the xda-developers forums) for a download. A description of what it is and how it set it up here available here.
Once you have your midlet environment installed, copy the .jad (descriptor file for the .jar file) & .jar (the actual program) file to anywhere on your PPC and point the environment to open the .jad file. It will install the JAR file and you can run it through the midlet environment. Note that if you don't have access to the internet, you must open the .jad file with a text editor and manually edit the path of the .jar file. The line to edit looks like this:
Change from:
Code:
MIDlet-Jar-URL: http://someserver.com/gmail-g.jar
to:
Code:
MIDlet-Jar-URL: gmail-g.jar
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