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SENSATION ! Gmail client for mobile phones works with ALL Windows Mobile phones PERFECTLY !
 November 04, 2006 [General] | By Edward J. R.

No matter what Windows Mobile phone you own, Pocket PC or smartphone, whatever brand, you can be certain that recently released Gmail for mobile phones works with it! We tested it (see images below), it works very well and we hereby show you how to get Gmail working in your Windows Mobile phone. Once again we prove that Windows Mobile phones are the best mobiles in the world...

Here is how it looks like, where you can see that you can receive emails:



... and send them:



... and actually do everything in your Gmail account - very quickly and effectively.

* * * * *

So how to get Gmail on your Windows Mobile? The latest version (6.1) of the IBM J9 JVM for CLDC runs it. We have verified it on several devices.

To get it click here.

The download page will ask for an username/password. Either create one or use a fake bugmenot.com account. No valid email is required.

The installation of the JVM is a bit annoying (it is 100% manual) but it is required by Sun to make the package “not user installable” and make IBM comply with the draconian distribution terms for CLDC/MIDP implementations (earlier J9 implementations had nice installers but were pulled from download.)

Depending on which Windows Mobile phone you have, select one of those:
  • CLDC 1.1/MIDP 2.0 for Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone Edition/ARM
  • CLDC 1.1/MIDP 2.0 for Windows Mobile 5.0/ARM
  • CLDC 1.1/MIDP 2.0 VGA (Hi-Res) for Windows Mobile 5.0/ARM
Obviously you can do the "RTFM routine" i.e. you can read included install.pdf manual, but roughly speaking this what we did, to get it installed is:
  • first we have copied content of C:\Program Files\IBM\WEME\runtimes\61\wm50-arm-midp20\weme-wm50-arm-midp20_6.1.0.20060727-102926.zip to some intermediary folder, for example c:\tmp-wm
  • then we copied the contents of this intermediary folder, through activesync to \Program Files\java on the Windows Mobile device
  • then we started .exe program with "midp" in name from \Program Files\java\bin and afer selecting "Install" from menu we entered URL to the JAD file of Gmail, which is: http://gmail.com/app/v1.0.0/en/gm-Generic-Advanced_MIDP2.jad and this program in turn has downloaded related JAR file http://gmail.com/app/v1.0.0/en/gmail-g.jar and installed it
  • after installation the Gmail starts and after entering user name and password you can use your Gmail very comfortably in your Windows Mobile phone!


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