Now I know many of you readers use GMail, as do I. Originally, I enjoyed it’s storage and it’s overall GUI, as it was probably the first free e-mail service to offer 1gb of storage (this was when Hotmail still only offered a measly 25mb). Thus, when I discovered GMail 2.0, the new revamped GMail service from Google, was to be released later this year or early the next, you can imagine I got quite excited.

So far, I’ve learned that GMail 2.0 has two goals: faster service and better contact management (courtesy of Dailytech). Both will be greatly appreciated – as the storage grows and more mail is being collected, there will certainly be more to sort through, so faster service would be much appreciated. As for contact management – GMail had a contact management aspect? I never knew about, nor used, such a service, but perhaps I will in the future. I do prefer to keep such information on my phone which is less accessible or my hard drive, but maybe I’ll give the internet a shot.

Again, patience is the key here. If you’ve already got the newer version running, great! Why not write a comment as to how it’s functioning? If not, then we’re in the same boat, and all we can do is wait. Sadly.

To learn more about GMail 2.0, visit:

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/09/gmail-20.html

Update: It is now November 2, 2007. I logged in to my GMail accounts and discovered two of the three made the transition to GMail beta.  I am guessing they are doing this through alphabetical order, so it’ll only be a matter of time until my third one gets transformed.  This is strictly a guess.