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The other day my friend saw me using Google Mail and was intrigued by some subtle but noticeable differences in my layout and functionality compared to that which he’d experienced through his own use of Google’s webmail interface.

I, too, was surprised as I believed it to be fairly common knowledge that if you set the Display Language for Google Mail to US you gain access to the latest functionality being rolled out by Google. I remember that when I first signed up to Google Mail there was a note adjacent to the language drop-down indicating this point.

However, I have not found any reference to this in or around Google Mail since… which leads me to believe it is something only indicated at the sign-up stage.

As of this post, new functionality includes smarter management and colour-coding of labels.

Anyhow, this post is in case it’s not as common knowledge as I previously thought…