Curse you, Google Mail!

Apparently, Google has seen the light that there’s a big mobile webmail sandbox and only a few of the major players playing in it. They’ve now released a client-side GMail application for mobile devices that support Java (the list is huge, including the Treo) that’s much faster and easier than accessing email via mobile web browser.
No, it’s not as good as any of the PalmOS-specific mail apps and it is a bit buggy and the installation isn’t for n00bs (although most of that is Palm’s JVM implementation’s fault), but it does a good job of bringing a lot of GMail functionality to the small screen without sacrificing as much usability as one would think. I’m tempted to go charge my Sony/Ericsson z600 (flip version of the venerable t610 series) to see what it looks like on the really small screen.
To install, point your mobile web browser to http://gmail.com/app. Treo users must get the Java Virtual Machine from the Palm Website first.