Gmail Now Has Mobile 2.0 J2ME Support

By: Sara Smith
Staff Writer
Published: Nov 21, 2008

Google launched a new version of its Gmail for Mobile. Google Gmail offers J2ME support which includes mobile devices such as Nokia N95 and RIM BlackBerry smart phones. The new update provides better performance and scrolling.

Google Inc on Thursday released version 2 of its Google Gmail for Mobile application. Google Gmail has several nice features including support for offline access for the first time.

Google Gmail for Mobile 2.0 adds new support for J2ME-supported mobile phones. The Nokia N95 and BlackBerry mobile devices are some of the phones that use J2ME.

The new Gmail for Mobile application offers improved performance and speed. It also offerssmoother scrolling and fixes the "freeze" bug. Some mobile phones were freezing up while scrolling in Gmail.

"We re-architected the entire client to push all the processing to the background, greatly improve the client-side caching scheme and optimize every bottleneck piece of code we came across," Google software engineer, Derek Phillips, said in a statement.

The offline support lets users read and compose new emails offline. This feature also works when there's no 3G signal.

The mobile application now supports multiple accounts for Gmail. Users can also switch between accounts without using different applications to view messages. Gmail for Mobile 2.0 also offers support for smart phones that have a QWERTY keyboard. This feature lets users create shortcut keys for Gmail.