One day one of Google I/O 2015 on Thursday, the tech major
announced that its standalone email client based on Gmail - Inbox by Gmail - is
now open to all for download. This means that users don't have to wait for an
invite anymore, which was pretty easy to come by anyway.
Google has also added a good amount of updates to Inbox by
Gmail, quite expectedly. A new Trip Bundles feature clubs all the emails about
a trip into a single bundle. For example, if you have planned for a trip to say
Goa and have multiple bookings in the form of flight, hotel and cab - all the
emails detailing this information will be put together in one easy to access
bundle. The icing on the cake, however, is that Inbox by Gmail will pull up the
most important information first based on the time of booking. So, flight
booking will be succeeded by hotel in this case.
The new smart reminders feature for Inbox by Gmail will
prompt you to set a reminder automatically when someone commissions you to do a
task in an email. Reminders will now also sync between Google Keep, the
company's note-taking app, and Inbox by Gmail.
Additionally, with this update for Inbox by Gmail, Google
allows developers to embed deep links to apps into emails. This essentially
means that links will open the app directly instead of a web page. This also
negates the need to log in again. Google states that the launch partners for
this feature includes Hotels Tonight and Eat24 apps.
The Inbox by Gmail update also includes the ability to undo
sending an email within the first 10 seconds of hitting the send button. Google
also adds custom email signatures for Inbox, and also gives users the power to
change Inbox's swipe gesture from marking emails as done to deleting them by
default in settings. Both signatures and delete features were recently promised
to be delivered in an upcoming update by the firm
Talking to TechCrunch about the focus on the Gmail app,
Shalini Agarwal, Senior Product Manager for Inbox, Google, said, "We think
about Gmail and Inbox differently. Gmail is our best-in-class email product and
we want to keep it that way"
Google has also opened up Inbox for Google for Work, its
enterprise software solution, users. They will be enrolled in an early adopter
program provided the IT admin allows access.The updated Inbox by Gmail app is
available to download for Android and iOS via Google Play and the App Store
Source From:- http://gadgets.ndtv.com/
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