Google GMail App For Your Phone

[Ed Hansberry]

<a href="http://www.google.com/mobile/gmail/">http://www.google.com/mobile/gmail/</a><br /><br />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.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2006/20061104-gmailmobile.gif" /><br /><i>Archiving an email and viewing 140 emails containing the word "watch."</i><br /><br />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 <i>all</i> 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 <a href="http://www.gmail.com/app">http://www.gmail.com/app</a> 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."

[JMac]

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.

[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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[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)?

[baralong]

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)

[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 (http://www.gmail.com/app/v1.0.0/en/gm-Generic-Advanced_MIDP2.jad)
gmail-g.jar (http://gmail.com/app/v1.0.0/en/gmail-g.jar)

I just tried it on the latest IBM J9 6.1 MIDP environment and it works flawlessly. I love it! :mrgreen:

[JesterMania]

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

.

Menu->Go to->Settings and uncheck "Use small fonts"

[Jason Lee]

There is also a Google Maps Java applet.

http://www.google.com/gmm (from your mobile)

It works on my 8125

[winterises]

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 (http://www.gmail.com/app/v1.0.0/en/gm-Generic-Advanced_MIDP2.jad)
gmail-g.jar (http://gmail.com/app/v1.0.0/en/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

[JesterMania]

With these files, how do I make it work in my ppc. Thanks

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 (http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/zones/wireless/weme_eval_runtimes.html) 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 (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=48558).

Once you have your midlet environment installed, copy the .jad (descriptor file for the .jar file) &amp; .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:
MIDlet-Jar-URL: http://someserver.com/gmail-g.jar

to:
MIDlet-Jar-URL: gmail-g.jar

[Zagleft1]

Not to veer off track too much, but is there some secret to getting gmail set up on the WM inbox? I've never been able to get it working and I assume it has something to do with the set up info I'm entering. I was able to set up yahoo without any problem. So could someone please tell me about the settings to use:

Username: include the @gmail.com or not?
Outgoing pop:
Incoming pop:
Domain: gmail or google? or something else?

Appreciate the help! :lol:

[OTHHC]

I like the application. Works great on the K-Jam including switching to portrait mode. The one feature I was hoping would be enabled (because it is not available on the mobile Gmail website) is to send attachments when composing mail. Unfortunately, this is not a supported feature. The only way that I can find to do this is using the POP3 option which I would prefer to avoid doing the whole send/receive thing and would like one spot to go to for my Gmail.

[thomas1973]

This also seem to work on any Java enabled cell phone, and also outside the US and Canada.

I followed the link, and the gmail app installed itself on my Sony Ericsson K610i, and works like a charm! Great stuff!


Thomas.

[Jason Lee]

Username: include the @gmail.com or not?
Outgoing pop:
Incoming pop:
Domain: gmail or google? or something else?

Appreciate the help! :lol:

Not include the @gmail.com
Outgoing pop: smtp.gmail.com:465
Incoming pop: pop.gmail.com:995
Domain: leave blank

[ctmagnus]

I tried this on my JAMin but I cannot enter the username or password. I select the appropriate field and try to enter the information, but nothing shows up. :confused totally:

Edit: after trying on-and-off for 15 hours, I figured out you need to double-tap on the entry fields to get them to accept input. :oops:

[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

.

Menu->Go to->Settings and uncheck "Use small fonts"
Thanks!

.

[Ed Hansberry]

Not to veer off track too much, but is there some secret to getting gmail set up on the WM inbox? I've never been able to get it working and I assume it has something to do with the set up info I'm entering. I was able to set up yahoo without any problem. So could someone please tell me about the settings to use:

Username: include the @gmail.com or not?
Outgoing pop:
Incoming pop:
Domain: gmail or google? or something else?

Appreciate the help! :lol:
Use your full email address - so [email protected]. The reason is, not all gmail users are @gmail.com. Google doesn't have the right to "gmail" in all countries. I think they are using googlemail in some areas.

Incoming - pop.gmail.com
Outgoing - smtp.gmail.com
No domain.

You must check the SSL boxes. The ports will be configured automatically. http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287 for more details.

[Joe323]

I'm trying to set up the Gmail mobile application (gmail.com/app) and keep getting this error when I try to open the jad file:

"The file 'gm-Generic-Advanced_MIDP2' cannot be opened. Either it is not signed with a trusted certificate, or one of its components cannot be found. You might need to reinstall or restore this file."

I've already installed the IBM J9 java component and the sample file that comes with it seems to run fine but the Gmail app won't open at all. Anyone have any clues? I have an iPaq hx2495 running WM5.