Ok, now that my curiousity has been satisfied and that I have a Gmail account thanks to my friend K, here is my insight: Apart from the hyper-mega-big inbox, there’s nothing absolutely fantastic about it. The address book, for example, I hate that thing. Maybe because I’ve been using the most cool Yahoo! Address Book for too long and I like the way you can manage your contacts, import other addresses and such. Gmail has a very poor address book interface and I don’t like that dropdown thingy when you want to compose a message. I know it’s a BETA and I really hope they will do something about it. 100 MB offered by my beloved Yahoo! Mail is more than enough. It’ll take something huge to make me switch for good when it comes to personal e-mail.
I really like Gmail so far. I love the dropdown reply feature, I like not having to wait for something to load. I think the contacts part sucks too but I think the conversation grouping is worth all of that.
I just read some Gmail FAQ and it seems they might develop a better way to manage contacts. I’m so waiting for it :)
I dont use gmail that much, as I still don’t like webmail after all these years and all these hiatuses. I haven’t really used gmail much myself, even though I have sent out invites. Maybe I need to try harder. :)
K – if you want to send me an invite so I can be l33t, feel free.
How does one send out invitations? Can all users do that or just some?