Just trying out a slightly attention grabbing headline. Of course Google didn’t do anything directly for the Palm Pre, but while I was out on vacation last week (and not blogging), Google did release a significant upgrade to the mobile version of gmail for the iPhone. What makes it significant is that it makes use of the iPhone browser’s local database capabilities (via Javascript) to provide not only a more responsive UI, but also offline access to email. All of that is delivered strictly as...

Just trying out a slightly attention grabbing headline. Of course Google didn’t do anything directly for the Palm Pre, but while I was out on vacation last week (and not blogging), Google did release a significant upgrade to the mobile version of gmail for the iPhone. What makes it significant is that it makes use of the iPhone browser’s local database capabilities (via Javascript) to provide not only a more responsive UI, but also offline access to email. All of that is delivered strictly as...