Google launches, and then pulls buggy Gmail iOS app

Google Inc. GOOG-Q released a native Gmail application for iOS into the wild today, then returned it to captivity just as quickly. The application, which was available for free on Apple Inc. AAPL-Q devices running iOS 4.0 or higher, lacked certain critical features: [url=http://www.shoping-jerseys.com]cheap jerseys[/url]such as the ability to receive notification updates when readers got new mail.

Google tweeted from their official Gmail Twitter account:

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While the application seems to hit the right notes aesthetically, [url=http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110922194701AAR9ucN]cheap nfl jerseys[/url]there are glaring functional omissions, such as the inability to download photo attachments to your Camera Roll – users are forced to open an image in Safari and save it from there.

The lack of notification settings is a problem, but has since been explained by the bug notice. Hopefully an updated version will fix the problems and turn the app into a powerhouse e-mail client on iOS.
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