Hey guys, I've just upgraded to the new beta OS and let me tell you that the Gmail experience with MicroB is unbearable. I read here that is slow, but for me is unusable: when I try to click to Sent Items nothing happens and at gmail the D-pad doesn't work to jump from link to link.

It is a fresh OS update without any backup restored. Just me or you having the same issue?

Thanks!

Hmmm I went to my inbox and read a mail message to test this out, but everything worked very well. I'm running the latest OS2008 beta on an N800, with a backup restored from the "leaked" OS2008 that was previously available.

I don't use the web to read my Gmail... I let the built-in email program fetch them for me and read them there.

Works with 2007OS and the new 2008OS

.... go figure.

Omega

The Gmail page is kinda slow loading, but it always has been for me, even in Opera. My Sent mail works fine. I see what you mean about the D-pad though... you can't use it to select links, only for scrolling.

You might like it better if you go to the bottom of the webpage and select "basic HTML". It looks very similar, but the D-pad works.

I experienced occasional crashes on Gmail too.. didn't do it on the "leaked" firmware. Seems like we got worse, not better with this release.

Also, the thumb board problem remains. In gmail, while writing message text, if you bring up the thumb board and write something, then minimize the thumb board, you'll notice that what you've written has been inserted twice in the message text!

If Gmail doesn't work anymore, it's bye-bye time for my "Internet" tablet.

try gmail in basic html mode rather than standard mode

If anyone has missed it, the HTML tab is at the bottom of the screen when viewing the standard GMail page. Once you switch to the HTML view, you can bookmark the page and it will go to that view each time you click the bookmark. I know that most people know this already, but it might help someone...

actually, I didn't. thanks!

I prefer to use gmail in standard mode when possible. I switch to html mode when I'm desperate (which happens when standard mode becomes unusable due to bad internet connection). Opera/OS2007 works fine for this. If it doesn't with MicroB in OS2008 then that's a major concern for me. (It's a bit strange to hear this, because if I'm not mistaken there was a recent post claiming the opposite: That gmail worked faster and better in OS2008). Well, it's a beta.