Ok, GMail on the iPhone doesn’t really suck… but for someone like me that is use to using GMail the “GMail Way” this POP stuff just doesn’t fly. I want things I read on my iPhone to be marked as read inside of GMail, I want access to my labels, and everything else that I use all to often in GMail. Hell, I’ll even take the ads if it’ll make GMail on the iPhone more like real GMail.
What would really be nice is if there was the ability to use the GMail Mobile App on the iPhone like I used on my Moto Razr. For those of you that don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s basically a GMail Mini.
You’d think with as together as Google and Apple are that you’d have a decent GMail app for the iPhone. Heck, you’d probably expect to see Google Reader, Google Calendar, Google Finance, and several other Google apps available for the iPhone. Why aren’t they available?
Sure, you can use Safari on the iPhone and navigate to gmail.com and check your mail inside of the “real GMail”. But then that defeats the purpose of having the Mail notification sitting on your phone. And even then, it still gets difficult to navigate.
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