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Gmail for iPhone and iPad Is Here

Gmail for iPhone and iPad Is Here

Google has finally released a native Gmail app for iOS, bringing its popular email service to the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

UPDATE: Google has pulled the app and apologized for a bug with notifications. “Sorry we messed up,” the @gmail account tweeted Tuesday afternoon.

“We’ve combined your favorite features from the Gmail mobile web app and iOS into one app so you can be more productive on the go,” Gmail Product Manager Matthew Izatt announced in a blog post. “It’s designed to be fast, efficient and take full advantage of the touchscreen and notification capabilities of your device.”

The app, which has been rumored for some time, focuses on speed, efficiency, touchscreen actions and iOS notifications. Google boasts that the app finds emails in a user’s inbox in seconds. It comes with email autocomplete and the ability to upload photos with the app’s attachment button. The iPad version also includes the familiar split-screen inbox and email view of its web app counterpart.

Gmail for iOS [iTunes link] includes most of the features one would expect. Users can star, label, archive and delete content. Users can access the Priority Inbox, one of Gmail’s key features. It also includes your standard touchscreen commands, such as pull down to refresh and swipe to scroll through emails.

We’ve noticed the app is missing support for multiple accounts, a key feature of Apple’s native Mail client. We’ve also noticed a frequent error message on startup: “no valid ‘aps-environment’ entitlement string found for application.” This appears to mean push notifications are disabled, but the rest of the app is unaffected.

We’re testing the app now, but check it out and let us know in the comments your first impressions of Gmail for iOS.

[Thanks: http://mashable.com]

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