Mobile Stew

Previously the only way to access Gmail on your phone was if you had a POP3 client on your phone, and by following these instructions.  Although this method allows you to access your emails, it doesn't allow you to utilise the full tagging and search capabilities of Gmail and it also doesn't sync with your web-based account so emails will stay unread even if you read them on your phone.

There is now a simpler way to access Gmail on your phone which doesn't seem to be promoted anywhere yet by Google, which provides all of the useful features we've come to love from Google as well as some new ones.

To access the new service all you have to do is enter m.gmail.com into your phone browser.  The ...