Google services on the iPad and tablet computers

Batsu · on April 2, 2010

I admire Google's ability to provide so many specialized views to GMail. There's one for the Android application (which, realistically, just syncs information and store it locally for display), one for the iPhone/Android in a browser, one for desktop Browsers (+ basic HTML), one for mobile (non-awesome) browsers (+ basic HTML), now one for the iPad, and of course POP3 / IMAP for use with native mail clients.

They've really covered all the bases here.

houseabsolute · on April 2, 2010

Now if only they'd port this interface to standard GMail.

niravs · on April 2, 2010

http://lifehacker.com/5508260/how-to-use-gmails-attractive-n...

stanleydrew · on April 2, 2010

This is probably done by matching against the UA string, so you can probably spoof it. Anybody know for sure?

Edit: See comment below: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1237161

numair · on April 2, 2010

Interesting; it appears that the best interface for browsing Gmail is only available on the iPad (for now).

Steve will be pleased.

callahad · on April 2, 2010

Well, you can always set your user agent in Safari to:

  Mozilla/5.0(iPad; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B314 Safari/531.21.10

and experience the new layout. To do this, just go to Develop -> User Agent -> Other...

niravs · on April 2, 2010

Or you can use the iPad simulator (if you have the SDK).