Google Analyst Day Features New Gmail

It’s been well-known for a while that Google is readying a version 2.0 of Gmail, designed to update the four-year old email software that has been looking dated lately. At Google’s recent Analyst Day, they talked about the new version publicly for the first time, and listed some of the upcoming changes. They include:

A new JavaScript backend for Gmail that will speed up performance, a big help for those who feel Gmail has gotten too slow.
Email messages will be prefetched, so that when you click on them they will have already been downloaded, and will load instantly. When reading a message, you can click Next, Next, Next, and there’s no lag, speeding through a ton of messages instantly. You can even hold down the key and your mail flies by.
A new contact manager will launch, integrating accross multiple Google products (including Docs and Calendar).
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Original post by Nathan Weinberg