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Google’s Gmail App Is Ready To Start Managing Your Other Email Accounts

Google’s Gmail 5.0 app will finally provide Android users with one email management application that streamlines all their different accounts. 

According to a video obtained by Android Police, the Gmail app expected with Google’s Android Lollipop mobile operating system will let users read and answer email from non-Gmail accounts such as Yahoo and Outlook. It doesn’t say whether it will manage other accounts as well.

If the Gmail app will manage a variety of outside email accounts, the new app could finally give Android users an obvious alternative to bouncing around between multiple email apps. (The stock Android mail app will handle various email accounts, but it’s generally sort of lackluster.) And if Google extends this feature to iPhones and iPads, it could challenge Apple’s barely passable default Mail application as well.

See also: Android Lollipop Isn’t Kids Play: The OS Is All Grown Up Now

The redesigned Gmail 5.0 is the latest in a number of updates to Google applications that conform to the company’s “material design” philosophy in Lollipop, an entirely new design and user interface for Android devices expected to be released in the next few weeks. 

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