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How do I get Gmail on my Apple iPhone?I would like to know how to configure my Apple iPhone so that I can check my Google Gmail messages whenever I'd like. What's the best way to do this? Turns out that there are two different avenues you can use to access your Gmail, and, unfortunately, each of them has its problems at this point in the evolution of the iPhone software and system. The first way is simply to go to Gmail via the Safari browser, which has the huge advantage that you're guaranteed to be in sync with the Web version of Gmail because, well, because it is the Web version of Gmail. The problem, however, is that it will quickly be clear that Gmail/web isn't designed for the display characteristics of the iPhone and it lays out awkwardly, the text is way too small by default, and it's tedious to keep resizing text to make things readable. The other way, of course, is to use iPhone Mail and configure it for your Gmail account. Here's how you can do that (but keep reading so I can explain the positive and negative of this approach too, please). If you haven't yet configured any mailboxes, going to Mail (the blue icon on the bottom row in the home position) will bring up a set of different email systems that are supported by iPhone Mail. If not, you can also go to Settings --> Mail --> Add Account... and get here too:  Click on the cheery "Gmail" graphic and you'll see:  Enter your own account information as you would any other iPhone app:  When you're done, it'll check for email then show you your current inbox (sort of):  Click on an individual message and you'll see it displayed, ads and all:  Even here, you can see that the message is displayed rather tiny (versus how iPhone Mail displays regular messages from a standard POP or IMAP account). More significantly, however, accessing Google's Gmail through iPhone Mail means that you are using the POP interface to Gmail, which means that you don't get any message threading (which some people would view as a feature, I'm sure), but you also get all sorts of old junk that is sitting in your Gmail inbox, sent mail folder, and related. A week later it's still sucking up ancient messages from my own Gmail account and try as I might, I still have over 200 "unread" messages in my Gmail box, messages that are from 2006 and before. I've written about this huge Gmail problem and its inability to stay synchronized with my current Gmail inbox, on my business blog: Why does Gmail on an iPhone suck so badly? At this point in time, I don't see that either of these two solutions is particularly attractive, but since I had -- and really liked -- the special mobile version of Gmail that was available for my Blackberry Pearl, I imagine that it's only a matter of a few weeks or months before a separate Gmail application is available for us iPhone users, an application that will offer threading and, most importantly, will automatically stay in sync with the Gmail mailbox.
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I really want an iPhone. I have the money ready to go, but without the mobile gmail or a better option then what you've listed, I'm just gonna wait. What about Google Talk? Does that work? Erik Posted by: Erik Weibust at July 16, 2007 9:53 AMI've found that Gmail on the iPhone's Safari browser works fairly well when I double-tap to zoom in and out as needed. (For Gmail at least, double-tapping works better than the pinching guesture.) -- Try using www.google.com/m Gmail will be formatted for the iPhone and it uses google's proxy servers to speed up (show WAP versions) websites. Posted by: Adam Orfgen at August 12, 2007 10:58 AMDave, Another issue I've noticed in setting up gmail for the iPhone is for users of Google Apps. I have my own domain name powerd by gmail. It really is a gmail account, however, if I select gmail on the iPhone, I am forced into an ending for my email address of "gmail.com" and that isn't the ending. The ending of my email address is my domain name and the same id I use to login to gmail with. I can set it up as an "other" but then I am locked into manually typing the serve addresses (which are the same as the ones for gmail). It was nice of apple to save us a few characters on typing an email account, but short sighted on their part to not realize a service such as gmail is much more flexible than they could have imagined. Posted by: navywings at September 8, 2007 9:58 AMMy Iphone will not send pictures via email though it will send one to myself. Safari works but U Tube has stopped working. Posted by: Ian Lucas at February 3, 2008 5:19 PMHow do you remove e-mail or signout of your e-mail account on the iphone? Posted by: Carleen at March 11, 2009 5:09 PMI get double, identical emails on my aol account on my iphone. It just started after the latest update. I can turn it off and back on and it will stop for a short time, but then starts again. I even deleted the email account and reinstalled it, and it started happening again. Where can I fix this? Posted by: Darla at June 23, 2009 4:58 PMI found a blog http://read-me-dot-text.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-to-get-gmail-on-iphone-or-ipod.html that lists down the step by step solution in configuring mail in your iPhone or iPod touch. It's very helpful. Posted by: tungsten at August 2, 2009 8:11 AMYou must be kidding !!! Gmail rocks on iPhone but you are just setting it the wrong way ... Try setting a gmail account as a Microsoft exchange account and it will be pushed auto aync will be available for all mail folders and for iPhone calender as well I am enjoying it as I have never enjoyed a mail service on any phone in my life iPhone and gmail are just a perfect combination ! And this way if you set it as a microsoft exchange account it will delete messages from server when you delete them on iPhone and will mark them as read when you read them on iPhone Posted by: Osama at March 2, 2010 9:58 AMI have an Iphone 3GS and have tried, unsuccessfully, to download/create ringtones without buying them from the ITunes Store. I'm currently running ITunes 9.0.2.25 and although I've tried everything I've found on the net I can't get a ringtone to transfer into the phone. Any suggestions? Posted by: Ed at March 23, 2010 1:55 PMI have something to say, now that you mention it, but ...
I do have a comment, now that you mention it!
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