Google has announced five new features for its Gmail email service.

It now alerts you if a new reply is added to a conversation you are currently replying to. This, Google suggests, prevents the embarrassment caused by replying to a message and then discovering that “someone sent a better, smarter reply right before you”.

Chats handle friends going offline better, presenting them with whatever you were typing when they disappeared.

A new button on the righthand side of the interface brings the reply option up from the bottom of the pane and adds several other options.

This drop-down button doesn’t seem to work in Safari.

It is now also possible to forward a whole conversation rather than just a single message.

Lastly, as has been widely reviewed already, Gmail is now available on your mobile/cell phone.

Tags: email, Email in general, GMAIL, Google, interface improvements

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