How To: Have 2 instances of the GMail Java application installed/running on your phone

I was having a coffee in Helsinki with my buddy Henrikki today, showing him the Nokia N81, when he seemed quite baffled to discover that I had 2 GMail icons in my applications folder. First of all why would you need such a thing? Simple, a lot of us have more than one GMail address. Why should we have to resort to logging in and out over and over again or using the browser for one account and the stand alone application for the other?

Thanks to copyright law (you will never hear me say that again) GMail could not become a registered trademark in the UK and Germany, instead they had to settle with the name Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Mail. When you go to http://www.gmail.com/app on your cellphone you see this:

Go ahead and download and install the GMail. Run it, configure it with your account information and now go back to http://www.gmail.com/app

This time click on “Are you in the UK of Germany?”

You will now see this:

Go ahead and download and install Google Mail. Run it, configure it and now you can have 2 GMail accounts accessing that most awesome Java GMail application at the same time!

Now as a feature request to the GMail team, please enable multiple account support and let us send attachments. A native S60 version would be a blessing since the current Java app takes ages to load.