To get started simply point your phone's web browser to http://m.gmail.com
If you don't have access to a fully supported browser in your cell phone, access to Gmail is served in a basic HTML view of the service that is compatible with almost any browser. Users who sign in to Gmail using a browser that isn't fully supported, will be automatically directed to the basic HTML view.

Cell Phone Terminology

Flip vs. Candy-Bar: Flip phones, (sometimes called clamshell phones) open and close on a hinge, protecting the keypad from accidental dialing. Candy-bar phones are rectangular in shape and operate without having to flip them open. because the key pad on a candy-bar phone is always exposed, an Electronic key locks to prevent accidental dialing.

Smart Phones: Generally describes a phone that has email and Web-browsing capabilities and strong organizer functions, like those of a PDA, as well as normal voice calling features. A great example of a smart phone is the Palm Treo, which is essentially a hand-held computer, with full keyboard the ability to handle email, Web browsing, instant messaging, calendar and contacts, and synchronization with a PC.

Video Phones: Major cellphone carriers are hustling to get video services up and running on their networks, and the carriers each use different names for this service. But this capability to watch snippets of preselected, prerecorded television on your cellphone's screen costs extra and currently too often consists of stuttering, shaky footage that takes too long to load, making it more trouble than it's worth. Prime examples of such services are Mobi-TV and Verizon's V Cast.

Music Phones: Music phones are designed to work like an iPod, allowing you to store and play back large numbers of real songs - not just ringtones - through music-playing software. Most such phones are clumsy and limited, but they will soon improve, because several of the wireless carriers hope to start competing with Apple to sell downloaded songs. Examples today are the Motorola ROKR, which uses Apple software, and the Sony-Ericsson Walkman phone.

Ringback vs. Ringtone: Ringtones, or songs that play out loud when your phone rings, are increasingly popular, users like to brand themselves with current (or even vintage) popular music flavors.

Ringbacks: are somewhat rarer, if you buy a ringback song to use on your cellphone (each costs a couple bucks and may require a small monthly fee), callers hear that song instead of the plain ringing tone most of us expect. You can often assign the ringback only to certain callers' numbers.

World Phone: These are cell phones that work both in foreign countries and in the U.S.

SMS, MMS: Short Messaging Services, or "text messaging," offer a way to send text-only notes from one phone to another. Such data messages can cost extra if not incorporated in your cellphone plan, and are usually limited to 160 characters.

Multimedia Messaging Services: use short messages that include types of media other than text - such as photos, videos and audio clips, and is difficult to use in the U.S., most especially between phones of different carrier networks.

Cell Phone Screen Projection

Perfect for light-travelling demonstraions of Cell Phone Software, and for creating video of cell phone technology demonstrations the Project-a-Phone sends screen-images on a user's cell phone, or PDA, and can record an audio and/or video demo directly from the device. The hardware (shown right) is a miniature, adjustable rostrum which holds most major mobile phones and handheld devices stable. It can handle screens up to 12cm wide and 8cm high. Delivering 30 frames per second at VGA, it displays up to 800x6O0 screen resolution, and folds down to 10" x 9" x 2" and weighs only 1.2 pounds in its case. The device links up to a PC or Laptop which should run Pentium 333 megahertz CPU - or higher, on Windows 95(ORS2)/98/Me/2000, via the USB port.

Given the ever-expanding array of software applications on cell phones and pdas, this device could easily become a boardroom standard for lectures, shows, and demonstrations. Available now from projectaphone.com.

Cell Phone Shopping via UPCs

UPC codes can store significantly greater amounts of data than the printed word in equivalent page space. Scanner reading cell phones are now being used in Japan, to interpret bar-codes and shop for products remotely. Magazines, brochures, or catalogs, displaying UPC's next to the relevant product shots can generate sales from mobile users seated at home or commuting on public transport. Cell phone users with barcode scanners simply read product barcodes and automatically display the appropriate order forms on the cell screen. The user prompts the sale, and returns to reading their magazine or next daily task, without even having had to call customer sales service!

This cell phone scanning system, called 'Felicia' was developed by NTT Docomo and by SonyEricsson. There are presently around 10,000 convenience stores in Japan where you can use a cell phone to pay for goods just by 'swiping' it across a bar code reader.

"Appointment" The TV Cell Phone Series
The five 5 minute shows: 'Mobisodes' (short for mobile episodes) is China's first TV show made just for cell phones. "Appointment" was put together by Beijing's Le-TV Media Group Corp. Only a few users will be able to watch it, as the series can be viewed only on specific $850 LG Cell Phones with Internet connections made by South Korea's LG Electronics Inc., one of the sponsors of the series. Earlier this year Twentieth Television introduced in the U.S. and elsewhere a cellular spinoff of its Fox network suspense serial, '24', this series too could only be viewed by premium service Verizon customers and in specific areas.

Monopoly Tycoon
launched in Europe earlier this summer on major European wireless networks has been named "game of the week," and has been given priority placement by operators. The cell phone version of the game game has been number one for several weeks and has consistently been in the top five or top 10 rankings, making it one of the most successful mobile games of 2005. In Monopoly Tycoon players compete for control of industries and city blocks as you build or lose a fortune. Available from http://www.mforma.com/ or http://www.games2download.com/free-strategy-games/