Gmail increases storage to 2GB? |
Loading ...The free email storage space war seems to be far from over, assuming this isn’t an April Fool’s joke, of course. Recently, Yahoo upped their limit to 1GB and they aren’t in beta. Gmail, picking an unusual day for the announcement is countering by increasing from 1GB to 2GB. Ironically enough I saw this story first in Yahoo’s business news section! 
Once the upgrade takes effect Friday, Gmail users will be able to store up to 2 gigabytes of e-mail and attachments for each account. Even more capacity will be made available after that as it becomes feasible, the company said.
I just checked my Gmail account and it doesn’t show 2GB capacity yet, but Friday is long from over. I’m not seeing any official word on Gmail’s site of the increase either. Hmm, this could definitely be bogus … I’m suspicious.
Update 4/1/05 6:15am PST: This morning I checked and I’m no longer suspicious. The what’s new page at Gmail adds the following:
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.
Also, on the Gmail homepage they are running a javascript counter that shows how the space is increasing in real time. And then they are showing their humorous side with the drawing with the ring on it … gotta love that!
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Nope looks to be true - check the Gmail Home Page ! www.gmail.com
Excellent chart on how it will work !
Comment by Lee — April 1, 2005 @ 8:07 am PST
yes…but bgxmail got 10g mail storage…..
Comment by Ajwad — April 1, 2005 @ 10:02 am PST
Don’t forget that Google caused a bit of a stir last year when they _announced_ Gmail on April Fools Day. I think it was a good week before people were actually convinced that having 1Gb of space for e-mail wasn’t a prank!
Comment by Michael Hanscom — April 1, 2005 @ 8:36 pm PST
Gmail is increasing the mail storage more that 2g…
now it’s 2051mb…
Comment by Ajwad — April 2, 2005 @ 12:57 pm PST
i find gmail the most unrelaible mail, but now its 2057mb, man i tok it as a prank on april 1st this seems incredible.
Comment by faiz — April 4, 2005 @ 1:23 pm PST
I tried using BGX Mail and although it seems overwhelming to get 10gigs of space for free, the site rans extremely slow for me. I’m talking it would take literally minutes for me to login, logout, and do even the simplest of things like deleting mail on my broadband connection. One thing that Gmail seems to have over BGX Mail already is speed.
Comment by justjames — April 7, 2005 @ 11:07 am PST
I agree with this Mr. that says:
“I’m talking it would take literally minutes for me to login, logout, and do even the simplest of things like deleting mail on my broadband connection.”
I also get nervous while i try to access my mailbox in bgxmail.net.
Super V
Comment by Super V — April 20, 2005 @ 2:09 am PST
I’m sure most of you have already heard about this whole “Gmail Lockdown” fiasco. For some odd reason Gmail has been locking up accounts at random for reasons that most still aren’t sure. I don’t know about some of you guys but I’m starting to get sick and tired of this whole “Gmail Lockdown” business. I’m not even sure what I’m doing wrong. I don’t have any illegal material in any of my accounts so I don’t see why it’s necessary to lock my account whenever I decide to download a few attachments. I’m about ready to give up on Gmail because the past few times I’d try to access my account and download a few of the attachments that I had saved in a few e-mails, it would lock up and I wouldn’t be able to access it for days at a time! Don’t some of you think this is ridiculous? I know that it’s in beta testing and I’ve been trying to be patient about this but I’m about ready to give up on Gmail until they at least go “Gold”.
Comment by justjames — April 28, 2005 @ 12:10 pm PST
I wholeheartedly agree with you!! I had the damn lockdown habit they have at gmail.
Comment by laviana — May 6, 2005 @ 2:36 pm PST
Gmail got me with their lockdown too. They don’t give any reasonable explanation. If you go to the community support site you will get a - Hey it’s free and you are lucky they let you use their service. I don’t need this junk and I rely on my e-mail. It really sucks when you’re waiting for confirmation on a trip abraod and the folks at gmail have their little we are superior to you so get lost attitude! Oh well back to Yahoo for me.
Bear
Comment by Bear — May 11, 2005 @ 5:54 pm PST
BGXmail - every one who used BGXmail service, the truth has been revealed
this service was run by american teenager on his personal computer on cable modem line 
thats why it was so slow. And now, its even inpossible to login to the page. (Running server on home line is prohibited by ISP, so his account has been canceled propably.)
Comment by Kevin — May 16, 2005 @ 3:44 pm PST
I haven’t been able to access bgxmail.net for two days now
Comment by david — June 14, 2005 @ 11:40 pm PST
Please note that Bgxmail.net Email Solutions is actually running business lines of Telus. The IP address of the servers is 207.6.1.130 and an email to abuse@telus.net will confirm this new change. You can confirm this IP address by doing a rDNS of mail.bgxmail.net. We thank you for bearing with us.
Comment by Bgxmail.net — July 7, 2005 @ 2:38 pm PST