Google launches offline Gmail for iPhone

Published on Feb 24, 2009

The offline version of Gmail for iPhone can be used even when there is no network connection

Published on Mar 17, 2011

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Google has demonstrated an offline version of Gmail that could be used on mobile browsers that utilise HTML 5, even without a network connection for the phone. This mean it could be used with Safari on an Apple iPhone 3G. In January this year, the search engine giant has revealed the offline version of Gmail for notebooks and desktops.. If your internet connection is lost or turned off, Gmail goes into offline mode automatically, using the cached data on your hard drive rather than sending and retrieving data over the internet. Once an internet connection is available again, any messages waiting in your outbox are sent automatically as the cache synchronises with Gmail's servers again. Google is hoping to bring all of Gmail's features including search, labels, and conversations, to the iPhone. Apple's built-in mail application is unable to do this. The launch is significant as it demonstrate how web-based applications can bypass the control that companies such as Apple or Microsoft have over a specific computing technology. However, Google has not said anything on when we could get this version for use.     

 

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