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  • phoenix_rizzen - Saturday, November 1, 2014 - link

    Can you set separate sync intervals for each account added to the new gmail? And can you set a different LED notification colour for each account?

    Those are the main reasons I like to keep work and home email accounts separated into different apps.
  • Brandon Chester - Saturday, November 1, 2014 - link

    You can change sync frequency, enable/disable notifications, and set a ringtone on a per-account basis. I don't see anything for notification LED settings.
  • phoenix_rizzen - Monday, November 3, 2014 - link

    Nice. I can probably live with the single colour for LED notification if I can continue with separate sync schedules and notification sounds.

    Will be nice to have the same set of gestures and features for both e-mail accounts.
  • Ortanon - Saturday, November 1, 2014 - link

    I bet there's still no goddamn Select All feature.
  • Morawka - Saturday, November 1, 2014 - link

    imagine how much damage you can do with it tho. Select all doesn't belong on mobile. Use your desktop/laptop for that.
  • Ortanon - Saturday, November 1, 2014 - link

    No one knows what you're talking about.
  • sabot00 - Saturday, November 1, 2014 - link

    You know you can just undo any damage right? Delete just sends the mail to the trash, and if delete can even be undone, so can any other action.

    You Luddite.
  • whiteiphoneproblems - Saturday, November 1, 2014 - link

    I see that when you have over 99 messages in a category, it now says "99+" rather than list the actual number...
  • av911 - Saturday, November 1, 2014 - link

    Agreed, one reason I'm still using Touchwiz. The biggest function from Samsung's email app is "select all emails for the one day". Tap on the checkbox and tap delete. How hard is it to implement? Who likes swiping to delete 20-30 emails?
  • Ortanon - Saturday, November 1, 2014 - link

    It truly does boggle the mind. And it's been so many years!
  • Samus - Saturday, November 1, 2014 - link

    Samsung also has the better calendar. I actually took the Touchwiz calendar APK to put on my Motorola...the default Android calendar is just crap.
  • SpartanJet - Sunday, November 2, 2014 - link

    I agree 100%. I use Samsung calendar because I don't use ANY of that Ad companies services so I use Outlook and the Samsung calendar app will use outlook to sync my calendar with my Windows desktop and Windows 8.1 tablets. Its perfect for the person who uses Microsoft services stuck on an Adroid phone.
  • av911 - Saturday, November 1, 2014 - link

    Replying to Ortanon's post:

    "I bet there's still no goddamn Select All feature."
  • Exodite - Saturday, November 1, 2014 - link

    So, like everything else "updated" to material design you get... less information, using more space and with the eye-boiling contrast of white on black!

    Thanks but no thanks.
  • ant6n - Saturday, November 1, 2014 - link

    +1
  • Ortanon - Saturday, November 1, 2014 - link

    I much prefer a clean look to "data density." But in the spirit of choice, I would support a "clean or dense" option feature.
  • zepi - Saturday, November 1, 2014 - link

    Indeed. This looks absolutely horrendous. It's not like the old one was crowded, but this feels like severe step back in usability.

    5 email on one page? Come on.
  • Ortanon - Saturday, November 1, 2014 - link

    Two spaces where emails would be are taken up by temporary alerts. It looks like the same number of emails would show.
  • Exodite - Sunday, November 2, 2014 - link

    It's more than just the alerts though. Compare the space used by the first mail under those alerts with the corresponding one in the old view, you can clearly see the space used extends both above and below the old view.

    The title bar also uses more space, with both it and the individual messages containing less information.
  • DanNeely - Sunday, November 2, 2014 - link

    As Exodite points out the header and the messages are slightly larger. I chopped the image in paint, without the alerts you've room for 6 messages at once vs 7 in the old version.
  • soccerballtux - Saturday, November 1, 2014 - link

    seriously. I don't get what the point of larger screen is-- so you can just update to use less space?
  • Klug4Pres - Saturday, November 1, 2014 - link

    Is "Conversation View" still compulsory? I won't use an email app that can't display - or allow you to delete - individual email messages.
  • purplestater - Saturday, November 1, 2014 - link

    I also loathe Conversation View. It's never been cumpulsory in the web interface; I'm surprised it would be so via the app.
  • Klug4Pres - Sunday, November 2, 2014 - link

    Actually, it was obligatory in the web version until on or about 29 July 2010, and still is in the Gmail app.
  • purplestater - Sunday, November 2, 2014 - link

    I don't remember the dates involved, but I had Conversation View turned off the same day it became an official change.
  • merikafyeah - Saturday, November 1, 2014 - link

    Ferris Nyan Nyan!
  • RYF - Sunday, November 2, 2014 - link

    Brandon, I can see that you have ordered a Apple Store Gift Card there, lol. You may wanna hide your order#/email.
  • Brandon Chester - Sunday, November 2, 2014 - link

    I didn't bother to blur it out because I used it a long time ago.
  • jocke92 - Sunday, November 2, 2014 - link

    Google is like Microsoft. Developing more than one software/app/service for the same service.They're approaching different people/markets, but got one or two unique feuteres that should have been available to all. Why do they don't put their work into one service and limiting it with licences?
  • ruggia - Sunday, November 2, 2014 - link

    well, remember when Google tried to unify accounts using Google+? That didn't go well, did it?
  • willis936 - Sunday, November 2, 2014 - link

    Nice avatar Brandon lol
  • pmhparis - Monday, November 3, 2014 - link

    "But unlike iOS where Apple has to ship an entire operating system update to update an application"

    Aaannd there, in the first paragraph the author loses all credibility through his use of a baseless & ignorant slam.
  • trynberg - Monday, November 3, 2014 - link

    The truth hurts? This is the same author who just wrote a glowing review of OSX and iOS.

    Was his statement accurate or not?
  • toyotabedzrock - Monday, November 3, 2014 - link

    It would be nice if it pulled my exchange account info in from the default email app. And if it would sync my contacts from exchange.
  • Socaltyger - Tuesday, November 4, 2014 - link

    Still no way to sync IMAP folders, specifically the sent folder. No go for me.

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