How to Make Your Cellphone Act Like a BlackBerry

David Pogue of the New York Times writes about how to make your normal, Internet enabled phone into a BlackBerry like device for free:

Take the newly polished version of Gmail for Mobile, for example. It’s a fast, clean little program that you install on your cellphone. When you fire it up, you see an immaculately designed miniature version of Gmail.com, Google’s free e-mail Web site.

It’s all here: keyboard shortcuts, “threaded” conversations that keep all the back-and-forths on a subject together, a fast Search command, Reply, Forward and so on. Incredibly, you can even open Word, PDF and photo attachments right on your cellphone, although text formatting is lost.

You can flag messages with the classic Gmail star, tag them as spam and navigate your mail “folders.” Amazingly, anything you do on your cellphone — deleting messages, sending replies — is reflected immediately in the full-blown Web version of Gmail.

Only one aspect of the full Web-based version is missing on the phone: the ads.

Note, by the way, that Gmail for Mobile checks for new messages only when you open the program, and again each time you hit the Refresh button. It’s not like a BlackBerry, which displays new messages automatically as they arrive. For many people, however, this is a good thing.

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I use the mobile Gmail all the time and think it's the best thing since Coke Zero. Really, it is great. Luckily my phone can run Java, if your's can't or you are a luddite, go to the next post. Pogue goes on to talk about Yahoo and Teleflip in the article. CONTACT: Leave me a Houston or Texas media news tip | COMMENT: Click to leave your thoughts on this post here