GMail, standalone, on any phone

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Using GMail in a web browser has always been a bit clumsy. Ewan's taken a shine to Google's dedicated Java-based GMail client on his Nokia N95. OK, so Java's slow to load and clumsy, but Google's mini app is well designed and has some lovely touches.
"Now hold on a second, I hear you all think, why are you reviewing the java midlet version of Google Mail when you’ve been praising the ‘low bandwidth’ web version (at http://mail.google.com/, which will pick up your phone as a mobile device and serve the page accordingly)? A couple of reasons, to be honest.

The first is that while the web version does the job, I’m not a great fan of the Nokia Browser, and navigating everything from a cursor/mouse interface does leave a little to be desired. I’m also not fond of it splitting up long emails over a number of pages."