You can go to the site, but it's clear that Google takes the browser id and uses a special android oriented version of the google apps.

It's very much like iPhone oriented mobile sites. The Google Reader site does the same "show 15 entries, don't allow keyboard short cuts, don't allow adding/removing tags" and all of that that the do with their "mobile" editions of applications. Only, instead of having to use a number pad for navigating Reader, it gives you a finger friendly version. The browser version of Gmail is also, similarly, not "the full desktop version" (it's also not the same as the built-in Gmail application, oddly).

So it's like there's 3 editions of Google applications:

1) Full/Real Google Apps (what you see from desktop browsers like Firefox, IE, Safari ... and microb)
2) Mobile Google Apps (what you see on WAP browsers, Opera Mobile, etc.)
3) Android/iPhone Google Apps (Mobile + Finger GUI)

I have no doubt that the browser is _capable_ of doing real Gmail... I'm just saying, that's not the content it's being given.