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Read Gmail on iPhone, Android in 44 Languages Now

Read Gmail on iPhone, Android in 44 Languages Now

Google Mobile Team has added support for 44 different languages in its HTML5 Web App based Gmail interface. The Gmail web app for mobile web already has stars, labels, threaded conversations and other features added to its interface. However, this new language support is limited to Apple iOS and Google Android OS powered mobile devices only. That’s right. From now on, you can read emails in Hindi on your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad or Android based phones.

Gmail mobile web app got a snappy update at the end of October with HTML5 freshness. And now, with this multi-lingual support, we’re sure people would be prone to use Gmail as a web app on iOS devices rather than using the native Mail App. Apart from English (UK and American), the following 44 languages are supported by Gmail mobile web app now:

Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian (Bokmal), Polish, Portuguese (for both Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (for both Spain and South America), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, Urdu and Vietnamese.

To read Gmail in your desired language, you need to check if your iOS device or Android phone’s native language has been set accordingly. For instance, if you want to read your Gmail in French, then set the iPhone or Android phone’s native language as French. Then just go to gmail.com from the mobile web browser and the Gmail interface will appear in French automatically.

Not only that, Gmail also gets offline support, smart links to Google Maps, YouTube and Google Docs, adding-removing labels, and more features. By default, new Gmail for mobile web will work on all versions of Android phones and iOS devices running iOS 2.2.1 update or higher.

A follower of Do No Evil , Google has certainly played wicked by adding Hindi support to Gmail Mobile Web App for Apple iOS and Android OS devices. However, none of the Apple iOS products support Hindi officially which you can check in Languages section here. Demands for Indic Font support on Apple discussion forums go unanswered.

Apart from that, Android 2.3 Gingerbread update added support for up to 55 languages that include Hindi. I am not sure if Android 1.6 running phones will have native language support of Hindi/Devnagri. In short, though the language support is there in Gmail web app, you might be able to enjoy it only if you ve set the default language of Gmail as Hindi, which was possible earlier as well. However, it would be impossible to respond back in Hindi to an email without Hindi keyboard support. The language support is still to be rolled out, so I ll check and update this space with more.

[Thanks: http://www.techtree.com]

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