S60 Open to new features

I suck in my s60.com email address directly into Google using POP3. No need to change anything and it goes into the right place. ;)

Posted by: PhoneBoy | June 12, 2007 09:17 PM

surely you must have pop3 settings somewhere in the same admin panel your webmail is in.

Oh. How silly of me. Thanks, I'll try to find where the pop3 settings were hidden.

So at least two others S60 users using gmail :)

Using the S60 browser it has always redirected me to mobile gmail, but there was a link at the button for "basic HTML". Given the fact that I have a 800x352 screen, WLAN or in true mobile use a data connection using EGPRS or 3G and flat rate, I really don't want any mobile optimization with no support for attachments etc.

Unfortunately they have removed the "basic HTML" link 1.5 weeks ago. Any idea how to use basic HTML mode with the S60 browser now?

UGe: interesting. I tried it too, can't see a way how to do it. So I can't help you, go and ask Google to change it back!

I wonder whether G will continue to force-feed mobile-optimized versions, now that mobile devices with capable browsers are proliferating.

Personally, I use the Gmail mobile application.
http://www.google.com/mobile/mail/index.html

Well, I have asked them. But I only received the standard copy-paste answer that I should check the system requirements. They obviously didn't even bother to read that I wrote it has worked before. And to my second mail they haven't replied anymore

I guess at least 100 S60 users need to complain. Then we might have the chance that some customer service guy has a weak moment and actually reads and thinks for a minute.

I looked at the Midlet some months ago. But I wasn't very convinced, basic HTML mode was much better. I think the Midlet did not support attachments and URL links, but maybe I have to give it a try again, if they don't bring basic HTML mode back.

P.S. The same happened with S80 two years ago. I had used basic HTML mode for more than a year, when they changed something and suddenly you couldn't log in any longer with an S80 device (no firmware upgrade involved). This was before mobile mode even existed. And their support just asked to check the system requirements. Still in those days they had the resources to carry on the "conversation" for a couple of weeks, even if it never lead anywhere.