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Looks like Google and Apple are going to be bosom buddies! Word on the tech blogs is that a dedicated Gmail app will be submitted to Apple for review “soon.”

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The news broke on a techCrunch blog a couple of hours ago.

Wrote blogger MG Siegler:

Google is on the verge of launching their native Gmail app, multiple sources tell me. In fact, I believe it has already been submitted to Apple for review. If it gets approved, it should be out soon. And I think it’s going to be approved.

This is great news for a couple of reasons. First: native Gmail app! Awesome. Second: those who have seen the app tell me it’s pretty fantastic. Perhaps even surprisingly so…The native Gmail app will likely bring other key functionality as well: like Priority Inbox and one-click starring of messages. Other possibilities include some of the stuff Google is about to roll out for Gmail proper: like contact icons, better threading, and deep searching functionality. Maybe there will even be some Google+ integration, which Google is also hard at work on for Gmail.

Google has remained mum on the project so far. This may be because an app for Gmail on the iPhone may spell doom for Android devices where that native app kills.

iPhone users have been using a Gmail web service to access their mail and it has limitations, to say the least.

SOURCE: The Register & Paris Lemon