Google Reader and GMail
 

Hi everyone -

I am thinking about buying a N810, and am looking to learn a couple of details on the device from those of you that are using them.

My usage of Internet at home most nights are checking Gmail, using Google reader, general web browsing, and IM.

How does Google reader render in the N810 browser? Is it usable? I assume Google gears (for offline google reader support) is not supported, is that accurate? If Google reader does not work well, how about bloglines?

(I tend to use a few different machines for RSS, so I need support of a service that keeps the feeds in sync between the various systems.)

Gmail web interface is OK? I know I can now use the IMAP interface worst case, however I do like the web interface best.

Any other items I should watch for?

Thanks everyone.

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google reader works fine. I'm using it every day and no problem with IT2008 (with microb browser) and IT2007(microb browser, doesn't work with opera).
gmail works fine too! newest gmail interface is quite slow to render so i've stopped using it and i'm using modest with imap gmail.. no problems!
also google docs works w/o problems!

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google reader works great for me, i installed the osx style google reader theme from userstyles.org as a greasemonkey script and i think it increased the readability on the tablet, i also gmail ui=1(the old one) and it works well enough.

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Thanks for the replies!

Follow up question - With the big price difference between the N810 and N800, I am very tempted to pick up the N800. Are the sites and services I mentioned pretty usable without a constant keyboard?

I am a bit concerned about the on screen keyboard interface and how well that will work. This is simply from not having used it before.

Thanks
Jim

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well, i have N800 so i don't speak about n810.. but:
- google reader: no keyboard access so no problem here!
- gmail: i write occasional mails and i don't have problems.. maybe it depends on how many mails you write every day.

i think the really cool think about n810 is not the keyboard but the display that works fine with sunlight! but i don't have money for it now :)

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I have used Gmail and Google Reader with my N800 regularly since the last OS07 firmware update and can report that they both work quite well without the need for a keyboard. These are 'must have' apps (gmail obviously:) for me and my use of them (for me anyway) is an affirmation of the whole 'internet' part of the tablet experience. I am one of the few not clamoring for a better email app simply because I find using gmail so easy. I am one of those users who is happy to leave all my email on google's server where I can find it wherever I am and whatever device I'm using.

As for the reader, it's much the same for the local rss reader. I don't use the local app because I can get all my feeds on the net with quick links to the stories because I'm already running the browser.

I've had the privilege of being able to get an N810 as well, and can tell you it works even better on the OS08 software. This is not the same, tho, as running the OS08 on the N800, which I've not done. Since there are so many solid apps for the OS07, I'm keeping that on my N800 for now:)

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That's great if you're using it at destinations that always have wifi, but for places in between offline-enabled apps are much better. For me, they're essential. IMAP with gmail should bridge the gap nicely, but the email program on my N810 sucks hard; won't start most of the time, when it does start it gets errors, and then just when I'd given up on it and switched to Claws Mail, the other mail program decides to start itself up and download all 2000 messages - but just the headers. That's a crappy program. I can't believe they let it out the door.

Claws Mail is pretty good - very powerful and works almost 100% on the N810. My only issue is that I can't set it to just download the last 3 days worth of messages or something, which would be a nice way to save space. And I still seem to have problems only getting the headers. Is that a gmail thing?

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No question, Weatherman, you are right. That's certainly true for folks who have a lot of email to manage and are not in a wifi spot consistently. To affirm your point, I've heard as many good things about Claws as bad things about the built in app.

It's a personal thing really...I simply decided that I am better off waiting till I'm online to get to the emails...it's why I abandoned the crackberry:p

BTW I've read here in ITT that Modest Mail is coming, but the notes I've seen are still for the advanced users. I'll wait for an install file:rolleyes:

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Is mnotify or something like it working with the N810/OS2008 yet?

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I've got it working with my N800/OS2008 so it should work for the 810 I would guess.

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There is some activity in this area:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...e=2#post103197

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Is typing response painfully slow in Gmail when writing a draft for anyone else?

Even with my really slow speed on the N810's keyboard, the delay builds up to several seconds very quickly. So slow it's completely unusable.

I've only experienced this when writing or editing a draft for some reason. New emails that are not drafts give decent response time for typing.

This has me considering claws or modest.

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Unless I need to select an entire filter/search result list of emails, I just use the plain HTML version of gmail on the tablet. It's much faster for me, and seems easier to navigate with the d-pad:

https://mail.google.com/mail/h/

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In case anyone is interested, I uploaded a script to tidy up the Google Reader screen layout on the n810: just very minor tweaks to remove whitespace (for some reason Expanded view/List view seem to take up more space on the n810 and wrap onto a second line) and reduce the clutter on the top bar.

See: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/18254

I've now modified it a bit so it also increases the font size for the entries (but the rest of the page structure remains the same).

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I'm finding a lot of mobile sites are working well on my N810, and much faster than the normal versions. Google's is http://www.google.com/m

From there you can set up a direct link to their mobile mail app, and it's extremely fast, though the compose window is very small, and the interface is different (everything's there--it's all in different spots, though). For reading mail, it's great. One possible disadvantage is that read mail shows as unread in the normal interface after you've read it. The /m Google site also has some other speedy tools, including that you can use Reader, I think, but I haven't figured out yet how to set up things to read in it yet (perhaps it needs to be done via the non-mobile reader). The site also provides compacted conversions of non-Google news stories, which is interesting, but sometimes unwieldy.

Another good site is http://m.wund.com/ which is Weather Underground's site--very fast and it even includes the radar map.

There should be a sticky thread here for mobile sites that work nicely on the N810. I have found quite a few.