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Re:Gmail Sidesteps the App Store by tvon on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @10:07AM (#563459)
With offline storage it can work much like offline gmail using Gears on the desktop. That's more or less the point.

Google around for HTML5 and offline storage.

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Re:Gmail Sidesteps the App Store by briansmith on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @11:02AM (#563542)
That is the theory. Does it actually work on the iPhone/iPod touch when there is no connection?
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Re:Gmail Sidesteps the App Store by TetOn on Thursday April 16, 2009 @01:16PM (#565455)
Yes.

With the requisite warnings about "no connection present" duly dismissed (this is an iPod Touch 2.0, so no AT&T network backstopping it either), I can browse my GMail inbox, read messages, make changes, and perform seemingly any "normal" mail function all without a connection. Obviously will have to connect at some point for it to be useful, but can do everything but send/receive new messages while away from a network connection.

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Re:Gmail Sidesteps the App Store by tvon on Wednesday April 15, 2009 @11:55AM (#563640)
What am I, your personal Apple genius? Google it man! (Hint, try looking at the Google announcement of the new Gmail interface for the iPhone)
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