Google Celebrates the 15th birthday of Gmail with a Feature-Packed UpdateByBill Toulas-April 1 2019 “2/2.1845.jpg” Android users will receive “Smart Compose” which will also support four other languages. AMP support and the “Scheduled Email Delivery” are two more features which have landed. Google finally launched its free email service called “Gmail” on April 1 2004 and many felt the announcement was part of the joke of an April fool. For Google it has been one of their most successful projects to date receiving ongoing development updates of major redesigns and enrichment of features. Since 2016, Gmail has already exceeded one billion active users and it is marching towards a bright future with poise. Today Google is celebrating Gmail’s fifteenth year of success and in addition to internal wishes and external “thank you” they are bringing in a few new features for people to enjoy. “2/2.1846.png” Figure 1 Source image: blog.google For those of you who haven’t used Gmail’s smart composition tools, they help you compose email messages faster by recommending a natural sequence based on what you write. The speed improvement through this machine learning feature will be significant especially in the use case scenarios which involve smartphones. Google claims that only over a billion characters are saved from being typed each week by accounting for the web-based platform users. The “Scheduled Delivery” and the “AMP interactivity” are two new features that will arrive universally on Gmail. Last week we spoke about the latter when Google decided to roll their Accelerated Mobile Pages service to Gmail, so you can read more about what this is all about in our post. The scheduling function allows you to set a specific time (and date) when your message will hit the recipient with something that was not possible without the use of a third party app at least before. This feature is useful for a whole host of possible scenarios, but especially for trying to avoid interrupting someone or knowing what time your message is least likely to get lost amongst many others. Grip.