Look, the Gmail Web App has long been fantastic. It’s the sort of web app that you wish was a regular app (oh, how I would make love to the unicorn that is the Gmail iPhone App) with killer search, smart design and now better graphics and neat features. Plus, I’ve always felt that the web app was a better translation of the Gmail experience (labels, priority, etc). The iPhone native mail app strips and filters any sort of Gmail-ness out before showing you your mail.
But as great as it is, it’s still a web app. I’m never going to pick a web app over a native app for day-to-day use, web apps are slower, web apps aren’t as easy to launch, web apps can’t stay open all the time. Etcetera Etcetera. So these days, the only time I do use the Gmail web app is when I need to search my ENTIRE inbox. What about you guys? [Gmail Blog]
Chris
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 9:26 AMI use it every day when checking mail whle on the move. Very handy when not near a full size pc or mac. Great to see that it’s consistently being developed, instead of, like some other web apps, developed once then left to rot. Nice to see new changes pop up every so often.
Also noticed that it’s now a little better intergrated with Calender as well.
Ben H
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 9:42 AM“the only time I do use the Gmail web app is when I need to search my ENTIRE inbox.” – Agreed. And even then it is reluctantly. Why can’t the native android mail app search my whole gmail inbox?
tortfeaser
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 11:16 AMYep. Only use it to search the folders that aren’t synced. If iPhone mail search actually functioned I’d probably never use it.
Oh, sometimes I use it to forward email with big attachments that I don’t want to download to the phone.
grrrumph
Friday, August 5, 2011 at 3:02 PMYes, I do use this. Have noticed it’s been slow in the last week but those changes came in ages ago.