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

Categories: Applications
By: , IntoMobile
Monday, October 29th, 2007 at 4:33 PM

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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 Mail. When you go to http://www.gmail.com/app on your cellphone you see this:

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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:

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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!

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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.

About The Author

Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Al

    I’ve been enjoying sweet sweet IMAP action.

    On the verge of deleting Gmail.

  • emozeoren

    Why install a Java application at all?

    emoze offers a free mobile email solution using your phones native software!

    Emoze has upgraded its free software that provides secure push email to mobile phones all over the world, to support Google Apps. This service from Google enables consumers and businesses to use their own custom domain names with several Google products.

  • Vaibhav Sharma

    Great share! Really useful!

  • miguel

    we would like to have chika for us to coordinate with our co-worker