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Android Phone Fans —
GMail Labs Experiment Signals Another Sign of Android Invasion
AndroidGuys —
If you’re like us, chances are pretty good a lot of your contacts Gmail are Android users. Wouldn’t it be great if you could open Gmail up and know whether or not your friends were using their Android ...
GMail Labs Experiment Signals Another Sign of Android Invasion
AndroidGuys —
If you’re like us, chances are pretty good a lot of your contacts Gmail are Android users. Wouldn’t it be great if you could open Gmail up and know whether or not your friends were using their Android ...
GMail Labs Experiment Signals Another Sign of Android Invasion
Planet Android —
... Gmail has introduced a new Labs feature today which does exactly that. The experiment is called Green Robot and it shows Android icons next to your contacts who are using an Android device. It’s simple, but cool nonetheless. You’ll see from the picture below how it works! ...
Green ‘robot icon’ – Gmail chat status for Andriod phone
D' Technology Weblog —
... Google released a new Gmail Labs feature that show you a "robot icon" next to people who’re currently using Android phones in Gmail chat mode. In the pic, Shirley is online with Android, Nicolle R. is using regular Gmail chat, and Chris I. is currently away but also on Android. Slatka is not an angry robot — she's online with Android but currently busy. These icons help you decide whether to tailor your conversation to type of device that your chat buddy is using. For example, when you know the guy on other end is using his Android ...
Google Android Chat Icons — Helpful Tool or Privacy Breaker? [jkOnTheRun]
GigaOM Network —
Yesterday, Google introduced a Gmail Labs feature that tells you if your friends are online using an Android device. I can definitely see some benefit to this — before even sending an instant message to someone, you gain a little context of that person’s mobility. And that can help dictate the message scope you send. If I know that someone is on their handset, for example, I try to keep my IM conversations shorter and I also give them more time to respond. I’ve found that if I don’t make that adjustment, the chat conversation gets laggy and both parties are typing over each other because we’re “out of sync.”
The obvious flipside here is one of privacy. I don’t think it’s ...
Google Android Chat Icons — Helpful Tool or Privacy Breaker?
jkOnTheRun —
Yesterday, Google introduced a Gmail Labs feature that tells you if your friends are online using an Android device. I can definitely see some benefit to this — before even sending an instant message to someone, you gain a little context of that person’s mobility. And that can help dictate the message scope you send. If I know that someone is on their handset, for example, I try to keep my IM conversations shorter and I also give them more time to respond. I’ve found that if I don’t make that adjustment, the chat conversation gets laggy and both parties are typing over each other because we’re “out of sync.”
The obvious flipside here is one of privacy. I don’t think it’s ...
New GMail Icons Let you Know Which Friends Use Android
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
... new one fresh from the labs is Android icons that let you know if your contact is currently online thanks to an Android device, complete with yellow Away robots, and red Busy ones. This would be a great option even if it were just extra eye candy for the Android-obsessed, but knowing someone is mobile definitely helps contextualize the conversation, and potentially avoids anyone getting offended at short, terse replies. You can enable the option in GMail over here.
[via Official GMail Blog]
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New GMail Icons Let you Know Which Friends Use Android
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
Those who use GMail regularly be familiar with the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Talk sidebar showing which of your friends are online, as well as the wide variety of customization options available. A new one fresh from the labs is Android icons that let you know if your contact is currently online thanks to an Android device, complete with yellow Away robots, and red Busy ones. This would be a great option even if it were just ...
New in Google Labs for GMail - Green Robot!
Download Squad —
Filed under: E-mail, Google, Web
There are some great little tweaks available in Google Labs for GMail, one of which is pictured above - 'Green Robot!'!
Like many of the labs additions (accessed by clicking the little green conical flask at the top of the GMail page), the beauty of Green Robot is in it's simplicity. It changes the appearance of your Google Talk contact list to illustrate ...
