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Offline Gmail for iPhone

Offline Gmail for iPhone Google has demonstrated an offline version of Gmail that could be used on mobile browsers that utilise HTML 5, even without a network connection for the phone. This mean it could be used with Safari on an Apple iPhone 3G.

Google has already unveiled an offline version of Gmail for desktops and laptops, and similarly, the mobile phone incarnation runs not as a native application but in the web browser.

Andy Palay, an engineer posting on the Official Gmail Blog said, "Once you turn on this feature, Gmail uses Gears to download a local cache of your mail. As long as you're connected to the network, that cache is synchronized with Gmail's servers."



If your internet connection is lost or turned off, Gmail goes into offline mode automatically, using the cached data on your hard drive rather than sending and retrieving data over the internet.

Once an internet connection is available again, any messages waiting in your outbox are sent automatically as the cache synchronises with Gmail's servers again.

"You'll note that it's very, very fast because it's using that local database," Vic Gundotra, Google's vice president of engineering, said. “You now have an ability to build an app that spans devices as long as that device implements the latest specifications of these modern HTML 5 web browsers.”

Google is hoping to bring all of Gmail's features including search, labels, and conversations, to the iPhone. Apple's built-in mail application is unable to do this.

The launch is significant as it demonstrate how web-based applications can bypass the control that companies such as Apple or Microsoft have over a specific computing technology.

Gundotra showed the same Gmail software running on the HTC Magic, a new phone using Google's Android operating system.


iPhone news posted by Romany on 23 February 2009

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