Google to double Gmail capacity

[analogue40]

Google plans to offer a bottomless cup of storage with its Gmail Web-based e-mail service, dramatically raising the bar for rivals in the sharply competitive business for the second time in a year.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based Web giant on Friday plans to double the free storage on Gmail from 1GB to 2GB, said Georges Harik, Gmail product management director. After that, Google will add a yet-to-be-determined amount of extra storage daily, with no plans to stop.

hmm, what's the date again?

[JoeLouie]

what could I possible do with 2GB of email space that I can't do with 1GB? lol

[MrJoshua]

this is insane, my gmail accound isnt even at 2%
cheers :) :)

[analogue40]

whoops forgot the URL
http://news.com.com/Google+plans+to+double+Gmail+capacity/2100-1032_3-5649571.html?part=rss&tag=5649571&subj=news

edit.. nice! like the way the board shortens the URL :cool:

[JoeLouie]

this is insane, my gmail accound isnt even at 2%
cheers :) :)

I can't even think of the last time I've logged into my gmail account lol. Everyone keeps sending stuff to my Hotmail acct even though I told them to use my gmail addy instead :mad:

[analogue40]

I use it every day, and am gradualy moving all of my accounts etc over to it, taking a while but getting there. I'm sick to death of the spam filter at hotmail, i've been training that POS every day for ages, and it takes so long to learn.

[JoeLouie]

I have my Hotmail which pretty much just gets used for forwards from friends (because, like I said, they don't listen when I tell them to send everything to my gmail acct lol) and my email addy for my server (which has 9.5GB+ free space lol). And I have my optical-edge.net addy just set up to forward to my server's address.

[Nastyboy132]

wtf am i gonna need 2GB for?
Listen to us complain like a bunch of crybabies. About having more than we need, at that!

[analogue40]

I thought this was an april fools, but i just checked my gmail acc and my storage has gone up :

You are currently using 131 MB (10%) of your 1267 MB

edit: it actually seems to be going up a few MB a minute lol, this must be a joke, someone max their acc quick lol

[freonchill]

You are currently using 3 MB (0%) of your 1826 MB.

i wonder how long it will take someone to make a streamcast for mp3's so you can access your mp3's ANYWHERE

update: about 2 hours later
You are currently using 3 MB (0%) of your 1905 MB.

[MrJoshua]

You are currently using 3 MB (0%) of your 1826 MB.

i wonder how long it will take someone to make a streamcast for mp3's so you can access your mp3's ANYWHERE


hmmm now thats an idea :) give it time give it time :)
cheers :) :)

[analogue40]

Holy crap it's still going!

You are currently using 133 MB (6%) of your 2050 MB.

[pinky]

Yep mine is 2050 MB, and I am using 0% although I have lots of stuff in there

[MrJoshua]

hahaha i win :)
You are currently using 37 MB (2%) of your 2051 MB.
cheers :) :)

[lothodon]

nope, i win, 2052!

from the gmail page...

G is for growth
Storage is an important part of email, but that doesn't mean you should have to worry about it. To celebrate our one-year birthday, we're giving everyone one more gigabyte. But why stop the party there? Our plan is to continue growing your storage beyond 2GBs by giving you more space as we are able. We know that email will only become more important in people's lives, and we want Gmail to keep up with our users and their needs. From Gmail, you can expect more.

http://www.google.com/gmail/help/whatsnew.html

[Jim]

Dam, I'll go check mine!! Thanks for the Tip...

[JoeLouie]

nope, i win, 2052!

Ditto :D

[Jim]

Team,

Mine says "You are currently using 25 MB (1%) of your 2052 MB." I'm still really using Hotmail as I've got it set up to download to Outlook. MSN was threatening to charge for it in April (?) so I plan to migrate as soon as they make it a cash cow. (Mooove!!)

[lothodon]

jim, you can use any email client with pop to check and use gmail now, no need to ever visit the gmail site anymore.

[Jim]

Lothodon,

I know but I've been a lazy sot and haven't gone through the exercise to set it up yet. :(