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Gmail App Updated, Much Better Priority Inbox Support
December 9, 2010 | by Michael Heller
Android News
The Android Gmail app has just been updated, and is live in the Market.
2.3.2 brings:
- Better Priority Inbox support
- Send from any address set up with your Gmail account
- Switch between reply, reply all and forward while you compose
- Respond to messages inline
- Bug Fixes
Although the options for sending from another address and switching between reply, reply all and forward are nice features, the big one here is the Priority Inbox support. Any Gmail user that gets more than about 30 emails a day can attest to how useful the Priority Inbox function has been in filtering out important messages from the rest. The update lets you configure Gmail to only give you a notification when an email hits your Priority Inbox, instead of giving a notification for everything. You can make the Priority Inbox your default inbox. And, there is finally a toggle in the menu to set a message as either Important or Not, so you can help train the Priority Inbox on the go.
What the app is missing is for the user to be able to set notification settings in terms of how frequent the app checks for new email. the native gmail app for android allows user to set how frequent the app checks for new email. the gmail app does not. If the gmail app gave us this control we could ditch the native email system. Hope they bump it up a bit with this feature.
setting the frequency of updates would be nice, but it also still doesn't have an option to set the LED notification color either.
There's no need for that, as it is now it doesnt check for new mail, its pushed to the phone like an update would be…this is the better method
I really wish they app had all the label colors of the desktop version. I hate that 4 of my labels are just white.