Mobile Gmail

Google has finally released a mobile interface to Gmail. I was waiting for this for a while now, even hacked the gmail-lite source to make it look good on mobile.
Seems like there are few teething problems, the page doesn't render in firefox (br element is not closed) and the style element is in the wrong place (should be inside the head not body element). Im also having problems retrieving contacts when composing a message.
Appart from that, its something you would expect from Google. The pages are quick and easy to browse, there are settings that let you configure which views to make visible.
A lot of content is transcoded on the fly (PDF, images) and displayed in the message, embeded links a re re-written to go through the google mobile proxy, embeded email addresses when clicked initiate new message composing, contacts can be dialed directly, etc.
They have pretty much used all mobile-browser capabilities.
As with google local mobile, which first had a xhtml version and then evolved into a full blown feature packed midp application, I would expect a similar evolution here: a complete email/IM application. (Let's not forget Talk, XMPP is nothing new on midp).

Well done Google, and keep up the mobile developments!
via Engadget