Native App or Web App
So I almost always prefer native apps to web applications. This is especially true in the world of pop mailers. I like to have access to my e-mail even if the internet is down. This preference for native apps is doubly true for my mobile phone where the browser sucks. So I am now doing my usual getting ready to leave work: cleaning up my gmail account from all the e-mail that I have already read on my offline mailer, when I noticed that they have a slimmed down web version for my phone… Hmm… So now I am stuck, on the one hand, the web browser still sucks, on the other hand, I can actually do all my mailing stuff on my phone while I am gone and not need to do the same clean-up when I get back. And I don’t care if I have local copies of my mail on the phone.
Hmmm….
December 22nd, 2006 at 21:29
Are you looking at m.gmail.com, or the java app?
January 3rd, 2007 at 10:59
Right now I am using the website, though the java app could have all the advantages of the offline app. I just spent a while in the land of roaming only though, and discovered that the palm version of gmaps (which I love) isn’t all that when it can’t find a data connection. Just keeps trying and trying, you need to be quick on the buttons to quit out between login attempts.