Google released its official application for mobile email. The website [http://www.google.com/mobile/products/mail.html#p=default] suggests only high level phones – window mobile, IPhone, Android, Blackberry, Nokia S60 and other. The word “other” made me try it in my feature phone – Nokia S40 – 3210 Classic. Surprise – it works. The performance is more than expected.

1. It is fast – loads very fast, and shows clean fonts.

2. It connects with GPRS only while loading your inbox with new email, sending emails, refreshing your inbox or opening attachments. That means, it disconnects while you are just browsing email headers. This helps a lot in saving GPRS cost.

3. Multiple Accounts management – Wow – a great thing I expected. With Gmail for mobile – you can create multiple profiles with your account information (I have 3 gmail accounts), and switch your inbox anytime. No need to enter your username and password each time when you want to check other account.

4. Gmail for Mobile contains almost all the features you see in web mail. Reply, Reply to all, forward, Star, drafts, Search emails, etc etc.

5. It works with feature phones too - (ah, the personal benefit…) .. Feature phones are cheap compare to Smart phones and those high level blackberries… but now a days I am happy to see many vendors are providing apps for feature phones too.

An extra valid point – It is “FREE”…

Just give a try and send me your comments.

All the best.