So, if you are looking to access your Priority inbox from your mobile browser on iPhone, Android or any other internet capable mobile phone, this is what you will need to do.

1. Launch your mobile browser and type Gmail.com. This will launch the mobile version of Gmail on your phone
2. Tap or press the ‘Search‘ button on the windows. This may appear as a lens icon on your mobile phone.
3. Gmail will open a search field. On this field type label:priority in:inbox. In case you only want to check the unread messages, also add is:unread to the search field
4. Tap on Search. Gmail will now list all messages from your Priority inbox.
5. Most mobile browsers come with a bookmark option. Save this search results page on your mobile phone for quick access.

The process is complete. You simply have to launch this bookmark icon to check your priority inbox next time.

However, many users have been complaining that they are frequently noticing an error that reads “Cannot Complete Call” that stalls the phone calling process. According to Google, this is a known bug that the company is working on.

There is a workaround if you are eager to get started in the meanwhile – by upgrading your Google Voice account to a full account. Doing so will help you circumvent the prevalent bug until that is resolved. To upgrade your Google Voice account,

• Click the ‘Call Phone‘ button from the Gmail chat list

• The Call Phone window will display your current balance. Clicking on this link and further select ‘History‘ or ‘Add Credit‘

• You will be taken to your Google Voice account. Here, click on ‘Upgrade your account‘ button

• Complete the steps required to upgrade.

You are done. You will no longer see the ‘Cannot complete call‘ bug.

However, for those users who do not get too many emails or who check unread mails fairly frequently, the new feature does not bring too much value. In fact, I found the service quite distracting. If you too find it the same way and are looking to disable the functionality, follow these simple straight-forward steps to disable Priority inbox in your Gmail account.

1. Click Settings on the top right hand side on your Gmail account

2. Click Priority Inbox

3. Select ‘Do not show Priority Inbox‘ and save the changes

Calls to international callers are possible too and according to the Google blog are priced extremely competitve. We are talking of rates as low as $0.02 a minute. Of course, the rates differ according to the destination country. Nevertheless, Google has indicated that they shall strive to keep them as low as possible.

The feature is tightly integrated with Google Voice though Gmail has indicated that the feature will also be made available to users without a Google Voice number.

Will this feature be made available to users outside the US? This is Google’s wording. Now make your inference

“We’re rolling out this feature to U.S. based Gmail users over the next few days, so you’ll be ready to get started once “Call Phones” shows up in your chat list (you will need to install the voice and video plug-in if you haven’t already). If you’re using Google Apps for your school or business, then you won’t see it quite yet. We’re working on making this available more broadly – so stay tuned!”

A fresh report on CNET notes from sources that Google has been testing a new feature that will bring a phone calling option to the GTalk interface that is available on Gmail. According to screenshots produced on the report, the service being tested will allow Americans to make free phone calls to USA and Canada using the service while international rates shall be subsidized.

The functionality itself is not exactly new and is already available on Google Voice. However, this is the first time that Google has been attempting to integrate three of their popular platforms – Gmail, GTalk and Google Voice into a single platform.

Google Voice is still not available outside the United States. So it is pretty obvious that this service, even if it becomes available, will require users to tie their Gmail service to a Google Voice account before the feature can be made available.

A feature available on Gmail Labs allows you to directly create new files on Google Docs from your Gmail account. To get started, follow these steps

• If you are on Gmail, click here to visit Gmail Labs. Alternately, click on the “green beaker” icon on the top of your Gmail page to launch Gmail Labs

• See the ‘Create A Document‘ option? Click on ‘Enable‘ and scroll down to the bottom and save these changes.

• You will now see a new icon for ‘Create Document‘ on top of every email you have received. Clicking on this icon will automatically export the email you have received to a Google Document.

Was that easy?

The Gtalk plugin for Gmail has existed on other platforms like Mac and PC for quite sometime now and it is not clear why it took so long for Google to make the feature available for the penguin lovers.

But here’s some spoilers though. The video chat application for Linux currently supports only Ubuntu and Debian based distros. RPM support is expected to launch soon.

It’s not clear if Google shall be releasing the source code though.

As you know, currently Google USA users have to either use a phone or the Google Voice website to make voice calls. The new Gmail voice call feature could just be too useful. Of course, it is not clear how Google would integrate the feature with a service that is being used the world over (since Voice is USA-only)

Nevertheless, this is how the feature supposedly look like. Take it with a pinch of salt.

[via Google System]

However, like in any segment, there are a group of people who are too accustomed to the older format that saw them pleading for an alternate “normal email” format which would list emails according to the time of receipt (newest first).

Business Insider writes that Google will finally cave in to these demands and that an alternate chronological listing format will soon be made available. How useful will this be, I wonder. But there is sure to be a crowd who will love the new (or rather classic) format.

[via Business Insider]

It now appears that the carriers have been making some money after all. PaidContent is quoting several sources to have revealed that one of the primary reasons behind the success of the Android OS – which is now being sold to 60,000 new users everyday lies in the fact that Google is sharing its advertising revenues in part with the carriers and handset makers who support the Android OS on their handsets. Interestingly, the deal is supposed to be on the inclusion of Gmail, Search and maps which are not necessarily part of the Android package.

As you may have expected, all companies in question declined to comment.

[via PaidContent]