A sneak peek at Gmail on Android

The first Android-powered phone, the T-Mobile G1, is coming out on Wednesday. If you like using Gmail on your computer you'll feel very much at ease with Gmail on Android-powered phones. You can download documents and MP3s, manage and view labels, star and archive messages, save drafts and even report spam.


With the combination of push email and notifications on the status-bar, you never have to check for new mail. Whenever a new message arrives, you will immediately get notified (in real time) with a little "@" sign at the top (see image below on the left). Then you can pull down the notification pane and see the new messages (on the right).

The email is deeply integrated with other applications on Android-powered phones. For instance, to share a post you come across while browsing the web, you can simply press and hold the finger down on the link and then choose "share" to immediately create an email with that article's web address. The tight integration with Contacts on the device then allows Gmail to suggest contacts based on the first letters you type.

All of your Gmail contacts are immediately available on the phone upon first log-in. And whenever you create a new contact on the device it's automatically synced with your Gmail contacts and therefore immediately backed-up, so you never need to worry about losing your contacts if you lose or break your phone.

To learn more about Gmail on the world's first Android-powered phone, check out Mobile blog post, or the Gmail page on mobile.google.com/android.

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