Hooray! Gmail Priority Inbox has finally hit iPhone via the web version of Gmail for iPhone. If you’ve activated Gmail Priority Inbox in the browser version it’ll now work on the Gmail mobile version which has hopped onboard with HTML5. That HTML5 version of Gmail will also work on any phone that plays nice with HTML5 but Android already got Priority Inbox in its native Gmail app.
Out now | £free | Google
Gmail Priority Inbox has hit the Gmail Android app for everyone. If you’re familiar with Gmail Priority Inbox on the web you’ll understand it immediately. Messages Gmail thinks are important are tagged with arrows in Inbox view. If you want to only see the important stuff there’s a Priority Inbox label you can jump to. You can also now tell the Gmail app to only notify you about emails in the Gmail Priority Inbox so your vibration or audio alert tone only bother you when Gmail believes you’ve got some genuinely important email waiting for your attention.
Since Gmail Priority Inbox launched in August we’ve been enjoying the automatic email sorting skills. And it seems it really has been saving us time. Google has kicked out some Gmail Priority Inbox stats and says users spend 43% more time reading ‘important’ emails over ‘unimportant ones’. It also says Gmail Priority Inbox takes email lovers 15% less time to read than the unfiltered version. Click the headline and tell us about your experiences with Gmail Priority Inbox.
Out now | £free | Google
The Gmail Android app has been untangled from the Android OS update schedule and got its own wash and brush up. A new version of the Gmail Android app has hit the Android Marketplace with a fistful of new features including limited priority inbox support. The bad news is that it’s limited to users packing Android Froyo. If you haven’t got it, shake your fists at the gods of Google and head through to find out what you’re missing…
When it arrived yesterday, Gmail Priority Inbox looked a little familiar to veteran Microsoft watchers. A long term project created by Microsoft Research seems to have been tinkering with the same approach to organising emails and what’s more it has the patents to prove it…