Previously, we had penned a post pertaining to Google adding Priority Inbox to Gmail for Android. Today, the search engine giant has brought out a brand new mobile webapp version of Gmail. (What the company means by a webapp, is the mobile site that is accessed by visiting gmail.com in the handset’s browser.) Destined for the iPhone and Android-based smartphones, the fresh alterations lets users access the email service in 44 languages.
Initially, Gmail was only available in U.S. English but now it even includes Danish, Estonian, Filipino, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish and Turkish. Language support has been expanded to encompass Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Dutch, English (UK and American), French, German, Hindi, Italian and Japanese. It further subsumes Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian (Bokmal), Polish, Portuguese (for both Portugal and Brazil), Russian, Serbian, Thai, Urdu and Vietnamese, among several others.
Users will have to check out if their phone’s default language is one of the 44 and then visit gmail.com to find the fresh interface automatically upgraded. Earlier handset owners could make use of already existing functions like starring, improved threaded conversations and search. Now, they can utilize a variety of freshly baked cookies like the ability to add and remove labels, layout enhancements, offline support, and smart links which are basically titles that appear in links for YouTube, Google Maps and Google Docs.
The latest version of Gmail works on iOS 2.2.1 and above along with all the variants of Android. The official Google Mobile blog elucidates that it has begun rolling out the changes, hence several users may already be accessing it.