Google makes some of the best and most widely-used freeware for S60-powered smartphones, including a native YouTube application, the Java Gmail application, and everyone’s favorite, Google Maps Mobile. These applications are all awesome, and even better is that Google updates them frequently. In fact, both Google Maps Mobile and the YouTube application were recently updated, which is great.
What’s not great is that in order to be notified of these updates, or to get the new version, you have to either keep up with blogs like this one, or you have to continuously manually monitor the download pages. It’s high time that Nokia get in touch with the excellent programmers at Mobbler, to see how this should be handled properly.
Mobbler is one of my all-time favorite S60 applications, and one of the many reasons for that is because it checks for new versions automatically, each time you start it up. If there is a new version, you can simply click ‘Yes’ to its question of whether or not you want to upgrade, and away it goes. Brilliant. Given that YouTube, Google Maps Mobile, and Gmail are all data-intensive applications (you can’t use them, in fact, without some sort of data connection), there’s no reason that Google couldn’t ping their own servers to find out if there’s a new version posted. It’s silliness.
You can click here to download the YouTube application, Gmail here, and Google Maps Mobile here.
