Poor connectivity

I am writing this review on the porch of a cabin in the Daintree rainforest on the Northeastern tip of Australia. Birds chirp and chortle in a rainforest that is ~180 million years old, preserving many species that have been lost elsewhere.

As amazing as this rainforest is, it doesn’t have fast internet speeds, but 2G/3G is enough to get by. I can check Twitter, google image search the birds I see, and catch up on news. I can even write this review in the App Store. What I can’t do, however, is check email with the Gmail app. It doesn’t even try, as if it is programmed to turn off if LTE or WiFi isn’t available. Other email clients, like Google’s own Inbox, work just fine here. Gmail alone is not functional.

Please let the app free - don’t constrain it to areas with fast internet only.

Thalesian about Gmail - Email by Google, v5.0.180107