The Story
As part of its Google Syncinitiative to get users to have all of their web applications on their phones, Google has now enabled push Gmail support.
Having an over-the-air, always-on connection means that your inbox is up to date, no matter where you are or what you’re doing. Sync works with your phone’s native email application so there’s no additional software needed. Only interested in syncing your Gmail, but not your Calendar? Google Sync allows you to sync just your Contacts, Calendar, or Gmail, or any combination of the three.
I Want A Google-Made Email Application
That sentence up there is in bold because it highlights a problem I have with most phones: they’re native email applications suck. And this is a problem ranging from the crappy RAZRs of the world to the iPhone. You can prove this to yourself with a handy little experiment. Try searching for an old email in your Gmail account on your iPhone. Unless you search by sender or something, you’ll be out on your ass. But if you launch the browser and hop into Gmail, search becomes the most useful thing in the world.
And there’s a whole lot else missing. For example, I have some Gmail accounts that are configured to be able to send and receive from multiple accounts. I don’t want to set up a million different accounts on my phone when I should be able to just log in and have all that ready for me to use.
I know Apple would probably reject any iPhone application that Google wrote to work like a better version of the native email program, but that doesn’t mean we should stop dreaming.
