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Telecommunications Google Gmail now on cellphones | Google Gmail now on cellphones |
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| Written by Stuart Corner | |
| Friday, 03 November 2006 | |
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Gmail users can already access their accounts through the browser on their mobile devices and the application embodies this functionality - search, conversation view, and automatic synchronisation with the desktop version - with additional features. Google claims access is up to five times faster thanks to automatic pre-fetching of messages; that the clicking and scrolling needed to access email are drastically reduced; that fewer keystrokes are needed to read, compose, or search mail and that attachments, including files and photos, are viewable and are automatically resized to fit the user's phone Users can go to gmail.com/app from their mobile browser to download the app. If they do not already have a Gmail account, they can sign up for an account via SMS by going to gmail.google.com and clicking on 'sign up for Gmail'. In a separate release, Google and Sprint announced that, for users of Sprint; US cellular network, Gmail for mobile devices can also be easily downloaded directly from the Sprint PCS Vision or Sprint Power Vision home page. {moscomment}
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