5. E-Mail, Messaging, and Web

Now that I’ve given you some technical background on the radios inside your Google phone, I want to turn your attention to some of the more practical applications of the device. Undoubtedly, one of the primary reasons you purchased a gPhone is to send and receive e-mail on it. E-mail is one of the defining features of a smartphone, and if your Google phone has a QWERTY keyboard (as the G1 does), soon you’ll be tapping out e-mails almost as fast as you can on your desktop computer.

In this chapter, I take a close look at the ins and outs of e-mail and messaging. I round out the chapter with a look at the gPhone’s excellent Web browser.

E-Mail

The Google phone allows you to take your e-mail with you wherever you ...

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