I have been receiving series of messages from different people pertaining the new mobile Gmail interface on how to attach files while composing a new message with mobile device. And truly, when one take a close look at the new mobile Gmail interface when trying to attach a file while composing a new message, it is obvious that there is no room for file attachment to the message.
From my own point of view, I think it is an omission
or error on the part of Google not to include that in their new mobile Gmail
look, and many Gmail users are not really please with that and consider it as a
major downside for the new mobile Gmail interface. The issue has really kept
users wondering, and with the view that whenever changes or upgrade like this
is being made, that it has always been done for the total improvement of the
former versions without losing any core feature or function.
But we noticed that it is
not always so, that changes sometimes still fail to meet users requirement and
even some core features available in older versions are sometimes being left
out in the new versions or upgrade, as can easily be seen with the new mobile
Gmail interface as discussed above.
There are other similar
occurrences that have happened in the past to other companies whereby core
features are being omitted in the newly upgraded version of the product or
service they render. A typical example could be seen in Microsoft windows 8,
where the start-up button that was valued by many window users and that was
present in other lower versions of windows was omitted. And we all saw the
effect of the omission which caused Microsoft to immediately embark on the
production of windows 8.1 to correct the anomaly.
Another example of such
important feature omission could be observed on opera mini for mobile where
earlier versions of opera mini has this wonderful short cut key feature that by
combining the #key button followed immediately by the number 3 keypad button,
quickly takes one either to the top or bottom of a long page, but in the newer
versions of opera mini, such feature is nowhere to be found.
Going back to the original
question on how to attach file(s) when composing a new mail on the new mobile
Gmail interface? The simple answer to that question is that there is no
provision for the attachment of files when composing a new mail on the new
mobile Gmail interface. The only option left here if you have to attach a file
to your new message is for you to switch the mobile version to the desktop version.
And since the above option
of switching to desktop version too is not available in the new mobile Gmail
mobile interface. If you want to achieve that so that you will be able to type
your message and attach file(s) to it, click this link Gmail desktop version
for mobile with your mobile device. After that, you will be taken
immediately to the desktop version and there, you should be able to compose
your mail, attach whatever file you want from your mobile device.
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