After having been absent from the App Store for a few weeks, iGmail came back all of a sudden last night and its new price (FREE) probably explains its absence. When I first reviewed iGmail it cost $2.99 and the remarkable thing about it was the extra large text-entry area and full-screen support for the browser-based Gmail app. Google has since released an update to the Gmail interface to allow for auto-adjusting text entry boxes and much easier scrolling in long e-mails, which means that the original iGmail client only had one major advantage left: full screen mode and left-orientation lock (see review for details).
iGmail 2.1 isn’t without a couple of new features (aside from the new price, which likely takes advantage of this), but I can’t help but feel as though some customers were misled by the older iGmail app description. I believe the old description talked about Google Apps support coming in 1.4, but as far as I know, the app jumped straight from 1.x to 2.1. I can’t state that as a fact because I’m basing this on memory and the comments on my initial iGmail review, but if this is true, then some people will actually have paid $5.00 for the ability to use iGmail with their accounts — $2.99 for the initial 1.0 release price and then $1.99 for the in-app purchase of Google Apps support in 2.1. The two other notable features in the app are PUSH notifications for $0.99 (more on this later) and the it’s-about-bloody-time fix of the Offline mode which just wouldn’t work before.
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