In this advanced and modern world, everyone should have an Email address. Email has nowadays become as vital as a mobile or telephone number. Moreover, in some areas email is the ultimate way of contact, especially in business. So, do you have an email id? If yes, then it’s nice but if not, then you should make one for you as soon as possible. This is because it’s as vital for you as your status identification card is. So, today in this article, I am going to throw some light on best email service by Google that is Gmail.
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It doesn’t matter whether you have or not have, you can always sign up for a new email account using the different available email providers. To the date, there are many email provider services which are available online. Out of which, some are free of cost and some of them cost too. However, the email services which are free are providing more than enough required features. They fulfill the need of the all the work that we want to be done requiring an email address.
Even though, many numbers of such services are available, yet only a few of them are famous among the people worldwide. The top three most famous email service providers all across the globe are Yahoo Mail, Outlook Mail and Google. All of these services offer you free email account along with many mailing features.
But among all of these, we and many other people found Gmail, the best email service of all. Now, let’s start talking about some amazing features of Gmail.
Gmail – The Overview
Here is the overview of this great email service from Google. Look at this table highlighting important stats of Gmail.
Provided by Google
URL http://gmail.com, http://mail.google.com/
Number of Users 1 billion+ (As of April 2016)
Started in 1st April 2004
With 72 languages, this multi-lingual email service also includes different Indian languages, Bengali, Hindi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Punjabi and Marathi.
Gmail – The List of Features
Gmail comes with a variety of features. Here I have described some of the main features that Google provides to the users:
General Specifications
With this free Gmail account,
- You get a free email account having the address of subdomain@gmail.com
- You get free 15 GB data storage.
- You get complete safety and security.
- Ultimate Features (listed below)
The Dashboard Features
Today we are going to discuss about the first type of features that is The Dashboard Features. After signing in to your Gmail account, the first appearance that will display up is the Dashboard. Check out the screenshot for more clear understanding.
All in One Solution
Gmail comes with the many ultimate features of Google. Google provies many services such as Google Maps, Google Hangouts, Google+, Google News, Google Books, etc. By making the use of our single Gmail account, we can integrate with all of its other services.
It simply means without getting into the trouble of having multiple accounts on multiple services; with out single and unique Gmail account, we can access all of the services. In other words, with our Gmail account, we can share videos and photos on Google+, upload docs and edit them, video call on Hangouts and upload videos to YouTube. This is one of the most important reasons why everyone prefer Gmail account.
This is something that many of the email services have but Gmail has its flexibility and simplicity included. In the Inbox section, you can find all your emails and that too categorized with Primary, Social and Promotions tabs. You can see the following screenshot to have an idea.
The first is the Primary where you will be getting all of your general emails. Next is the Social tab, here you can see all the emails you will be getting related to social media such as emails from Twitter, Google+ and Facebook or any other social network. Last is the Promotions tab, in this tab you will be getting the emails which have a promotional nature like the advertising offers emails. So, to provide the best user experience, Gmail has simply made the work of analysis and sorting of different types of email easy for you.
Moreover, there is also an option of custom tab with which you can create a new tab to receive the type of emails you want. You can create this tab by clicking on the plus (+) icon.
Other features that can see in the left pane are the general ones like:
Starred Emails – Here you can keep those emails that have relevancy for you by starring them.
Important – Here you will get the list of those emails which are vital for you to be noticed.
Sent Emails – In this option, you will get the list of emails you have sent.
Drafts – Includes those emails that you wished to send but still just saved as drafts.
Chats – Your list of Gmail Chats
All Mail – This will bring up all of the emails in whatever inbox tab they are. So, you can still see you emails in the old way.
Spam – It automatically fetches the spam emails and put them in this folder.
Trash – All the emails which you have deleted will fall in this folder. Trash keeps the deleted emails for only 30 days and after that deletes them automatically.
So, these are some powerful features of the Gmail Dashboard.
The Flexibility of Sending Emails
The next amazing feature of Gmail is the ease with which we can compose the emails. In the left side of its’ Dashboard, when we click on the Compose button, we will be able to see the Window or the Compose Email Popup as shown in the screenshot given below.
We can perform all of the basic as well as many advanced things with this email composer. The main specialty of this email composer is its ease of flexibility and use. We can perform all of thing within this window on the go without getting into any problem.
Chatting and Video Calls
Gmail features are different than any other emails service. It’s much more than just an e-mail. Actually, it’s a whole package of connectivity solution. It not only allows us to send and receive emails but we can use it as a text chat as well as video chat with other people having a Gmail account.
This chatting feature of Gmail becomes more fun and interesting as it is connected with the most popular social media network that is Google+. You can have chat with your Google+ friends within your Gmail account.
Design and Themes
Gmail’s beautifulness can be expresses in two ways. One is the clean and neat interface. Google has built all of the operational things within the dashboard so perfect and nicely that no one would like to opt out from it. The white red colored default them of the Gmail is enough to attract anyone towards it.
Additionally, it comes with the option to customize your theme yourself. There are lot of free themes available that you can apply and make your account look beautiful. Listing of different features all around, the way the notifications are displayed and many other big-small things add up to the beauty of it. You can upload any of your images you like and can also use it as your Gmail themes.
All in One Solution
Gmail comes with many ultimate features like Google Maps, Google+, Google News, Google Hangouts, Google Books, etc. By making the use of our single Gmail account, we can integrate with all of its other useful services.
That means without getting into the problem of having multiple accounts on multiple services; with single and unique Gmail account, we can access all of the services. In other words, we can share videos and photos on Google+, upload docs and edit them, video call on Hangouts, upload videos to YouTube, all of this with one single Gmail account. This is one of the most important reasons that everyone prefers Gmail account.
Business Features
It’s wrong to think that Gmail is limited to the features of personal use only. Even it comes with all the features what a multi-national business requires. Instead of the free Gmail account, If you require email service for professional business purposes, you can use Gmail for Work and can get your own professional email address like mk@mktechsoft.com
Support All Devices
It doesn’t matter which device you are using and wherever in the world you are, you can easily access your Gmail account without any problem. It supports all the devices like tablets, laptops, desktop computer, smartphones and even many of the simple phones. Gmail has its own application for each of the platform of tablet or smartphone.
Here are the links of its App for iOS and Android.
- Android: Gmail | Google Play
- iOS: Gmail | iTunes Store
The Security and Support
Now, this is something which creates our trust on Gmail. It is completely secured email service. Most of the people using Gmail have never faced any problem regarding the security of their e-mail account. They have many options such as demand phone number verification in order to keep your account safe with the mobile number.
Support is just – the best. They have complete detailed articles to help you in anything related to Gmail. You can visit support.google.com to get help in any problem regarding it. They have a big community to help you.
Conclusion and Review Result
So, if you see overall, Gmail is the best email solution to choose for any kind of purpose whether for the business or the personal use. We will rate it as the 5 star email service. This is our short conclusion and review result.