Loving Google Mobile Apps for My BlackBerry
April 11th, 2008 MobileFreak
For the longest time, I checked my Gmail account from my BlackBerry by firing up the embedded browser and navigating over to gmail.com like it was 2005. That worked just fine and dandy, but it was slower than I would have liked and was not the best mobile interface. After breaking down and downloading the suite of Google mobile applications for the BlackBerry, I may never go back to my old ways.
Google Mobile Apps
So I downloaded the entire suite of Google apps, which includes the Google Mobile Updater to keep them all up to date. Here’s a quick list of what the Google Mobile applications include (in order of what I use most often):
- Gmail
- Google Reader
- Google Search
- Google News
- Google Sync (syncs your BlackBerry calendar with your Google Calendar)
- Picasa
- Google Docs
- Google Maps (I’m a guy. I don’t need directions.)
All the icons for these apps appear on your main screen. I can now check my Gmail much faster, and it’s got a cleaner mobile interface that I can do things like reply or compose emails so much faster. I now use Google Maps instead of the default BlackBerry maps application.
If you use Gmail and have a BlackBerry, trust me when I say this will make your life easier. Go ahead and pull the trigger on the Google Mobile apps for your BlackBerry, and call me out if you disagree!
Downloading Google Mobile Apps to Your BlackBerry
To download Google Apps for your BlackBerry (or any web-enabled mobile phone), navigate to mobile.google.com from your mobile browser, and select Google Mobile Updater. The download process will let you pick and choose which apps you want, or you can do what I did and download them all.
Tip: Here’s a tip straight from the folks at Google Mobile. To get instant access to Google Search from your BlackBerry, press the Convenience Key, then go to Options->Screen/Keyboard->Convenience Key and select ‘Google Search’.
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