Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Mobile Gmail, Calendar Get All Floaty for Android and iPhone

On Tuesday Google announced enhanced Calendar and Gmail support for Android and iPhone (sorry, RIM, no love for you yet). They've improved the speed and added something they call the "Floaty Bar," which places actions such as archive and delete close at hand. They've also enabled offline access.

For Calendar, you can finally edit or respond to an event and, it too, like Gmail, is available even when offline.

For email, go to gmail.com from your mobile browser. For calendar, go to google.com/calendar/gp from your mobile browser to see and edit your schedule.

For those who might ask, why a web app, the simple answer would be "because they're Google," but the more detailed answer would be, because they can leverage Gears and HTML5, and because a web app means Google can iterate versions quickly.

These new web-based mobile products are only available on iPhone OS 2.2.1 or higher and on all Android-powered devices. Watch a YouTube video demo of the new functionality:



1 comments:

shally said...

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