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Google has realized mobile email these days is very important to many people, especially those with iPhones, G1s and BlackBerrys.  Today, Google announced that they have taken necessary measures to increase Gmail speeds on the iPhone as well as the Android running G1.  Some of the core updates include the user interface, opening messages is faster, and actions such as archiving and starring occur faster. 

If you use an iPhone or G1, then you know having a faster, reliable connection isn’t always possible, and some of the most basic functions in email take a while to be performed due to slow speeds.  Today, Google made sure that functions such as archiving as well as starring stayed on the cache of the device, and then whenever there is a good connection, it would transmit the action to Gmail servers.  In plain old English, the only time Gmail would have to access its servers which would take time is to retrieve uncached messages or a list of emails, however, opening up recently read emails as well as writing one out occur faster than previously.  Gmail will access the cache on your device to load these features instead of going to its server.  This will definitely increase performance. 

If you still want more, then you will be pleased to know that Google said that they like to keep their options open as they plan to add even more features in the future.  One of which will be offline capabilities, which would definitely be interesting on smartphones. 

As usual, Gmail is leading the way for all email services both on computers as well as smartphones.  Check out the video below to see how it works. 

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