{"id":69,"date":"2006-11-02T22:33:14","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T08:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/02\/new-google-mobile-gmail-if-fy-on-windows-mobile-devices\/"},"modified":"2006-11-02T22:33:14","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T08:33:14","slug":"new-google-mobile-gmail-if-fy-on-windows-mobile-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/02\/new-google-mobile-gmail-if-fy-on-windows-mobile-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"New Google Mobile Gmail (if-fy on Windows Mobile Devices)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/mobile\/\">Java Midlet Gmail client for mobile devices<\/a> today. So, of course, right off the bat it doesn&#8217;t work with my Dell Axim X50v (Windows Mobile 2003 2nd Edition) or T-Mobile SDA (Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone). My i-Mate K-JAM (Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC Phone Edition) has a Java runtime, however. So, I was able to install and test it there. Couple of thoughts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The fonts look horrible on he 240&#215;320 LCD. The fonts are small and jaggy (aliased).<\/li>\n<li>The scrollbar on the right is razor thin. I guess this is ok on a phone\/smartphone device. But, it is difficult to grab with a stylus on a PDA type device. Of course, the navigation buttons work on a Pocket PC. So, I could use it instead of a stylus. But, when I am using a stylus, I don&#8217;t want to have to put it down just to scroll a page.<\/li>\n<li>Navigation through a threaded message list is fast. But the navigation is not as intuitive as it could be. Clicking on a thread item&#8217;s tab expands or collapses it. But, it is not immediately obvious.<\/li>\n<li>The menus look ok when my K-JAM is used in portrait mode but are truncated at the bottom when I&#8217;m using it in landscape mode (keyboard pulled out).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Google should go back to the drawing board for this one. They should also take a good look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/wap.oa.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo! Mobile<\/a> web interface. Yahoo&#8217;s mobile web interface is a relatively simple HTML one that seems to work with everything, is easy to understand, and look fine on pretty much any screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google released a Java Midlet Gmail client for mobile devices today. So, of course, right off the bat it doesn&#8217;t work with my Dell Axim X50v (Windows Mobile 2003 2nd Edition) or T-Mobile SDA (Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone). My i-Mate K-JAM (Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC Phone Edition) has a Java runtime, however. So, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,10,12,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-devices","category-pocket-pcphone-edition","category-smartphone","category-windows-mobile"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-17","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}