Understanding Gmail

Gmail is a Google product. It’s used for Google’s corporate email system, and it’s very well supported on Android. Anyone can create a personal Gmail account for free at http://mail.google.com, and enterprise customers can use Gmail to power their corporate email accounts through a product suite called Google Apps.

In order to understand the Gmail app on your tablet, it’s helpful to understand how Gmail works on the Web. Remember, you can always use the web version of Gmail on your tablet because your tablet has a built-in Browser app.

Gmail is arguably the best free email service available. There’s no automatic tagline at the end of your messages advertising the fact that you’re using a free email service, and you don’t have ...

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