What gadgets support Gmail right now?

A lot of you out there have been asking us what devices, operating systems and browsers support Gmail, Google's new email service, currently in beta. Here is the list of browser you can officially use with Gmail:

• Microsoft IE 5.5 and newer (Windows)

• Netscape 7.1 and newer (Windows, Macintosh, Linux)

• Mozilla 1.4 and newer (Windows, Macintosh, Linux)

• Mozilla Firefox 0.8 and newer (Windows, Macintosh, Linux)
  Safari 1.2.1 and newer (Macintosh)

So of course, we figure that we can hack our Pocket PC with RegKing to report that it is running Microsoft IE 5.5. This basically makes any site you visit think the Pocket PC is a PC running IE, very useful for when your bank doesn't want to support mobile devices, but you still want to log-in.

In this case it doesn't work with Gmail. Gmail still gives the same message, not supported.

We also tried Opera on Sony Ericsson's P900 smartphone and got the same thing. No go, in fact it required a rebooting of the phone trying to connect on one of the attempts.

That said, in the bunker here, all of our Tablet PCs, Robots, Media Center PCs (Gmail on TV!) and other devices which are running IE as well as our Linux machines with Mozilla and/or Netscape worked fine as expected. We think this is the first example of Gmail on a robot :-]

So basically for now it seems PDAs and Phones are out. You could do a VNC service on your phone/pda back to a computer and view Gmail that way, but it's an overkill. We think once Gmail supports forwarding, you'll be able to read your Gmail on just about any device. If you got Gmail to run on something besides the list above, let us know.