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I have proclaimed several times that I miss my Gmail for Mobile experience on the iPhone.

Ed Burnette then points out that Apple sneaks Java support onto the iPhone.

They didn't really sneak it on though, it is just on the ARM chip (although not available):

Despite public comments by Steve Jobs that “Java’s not worth building in [to the iPhone]”, it turns out that Apple did just that by using an ARM-based CPU that supports Java natively. Programmers cannot (yet) take advantage of this, but Apple could, if they wanted, ship a software upgrade to enable it.

I hope that this puppy gets turned on in a software update so Cedric and co. can port their lovely Gmail app over to iPhone :)