Hindustan Times reports that Google is going to add Offline support to it’s popular email service Gmail later this year. Sources says its already built and is under testing phase.

I’m pretty sure that almost all Gmail users would welcome this new innovative product. Right now I’m not using any desktop email client like Outlook Express or Windows Live Mail Desktop. Why should I use a desktop email software? Gmail have virtually unlimited amount of storage (2.9GB and increasing) so as Gmail says “Who needs to delete when you have over 2000 MB of storage?”. But still I’m excited about the Offline version of Gmail.

According to highly placed sources,  Google has developed an offline version of Gmail. Gmail Offline will allow users to browse, reply, save drafts and do everything that currently Gmail does in an offline mode even when you don’t have an Internet connection. On current indications, this would mean that you would download a software client for this. When you get online your Gmail client would automatically synchronize (sync) with the Gmail server (network computer) and send and receive e-mail. A Google spokeswoman in India officially denies such a thing but there is ample evidence to believe Gmail Offline is in fact a reality and may soon be hitting a browser close to you. This has tremendous implications for corporate e-mail, but more on that later.

Now what’s Google officials response about this new rumor? They said “we’re always looking at ways to improve Gmail, but we have nothing specific to announce at this time.”

Source: Hindustan Times

Related Posts