MetroMail: first full-featured Gmail app for Windows Phone 8 devices

A lot of businesses, companies, organizations and even individuals rely on Gmail for their email service and while Windows Phone supports Google Mail directly, it doesn’t have all the features that Gmail has on the web. MetroMail, a native Gmail client is available on Windows Phone Store from today. It’s quite a robust app for those who need all the power of Gmail on their Windows Phone.

Currently the app is running for $0.99 with no free trial, this was done on purpose to limit the initial stress on the push server. Later, a trial and perhaps even a free ad-supported version may come.

Features of MetroMail:

• First-class support for archiving, starred emails, and labels
• Support for inbox tabs (e.g. Primary, Social, Promotions)
• No more broken threads when replying to emails
• Server-side search functionality with support for advanced Gmail search operators
• Toast notifications support for new emails
• Support for multiple From addresses within the same account
• Proper rendering of long HTML emails
• Possible to concatenate multiple accounts under 1 unread counter (for use with a single live tile or the lock screen)

Next version of MetroMail should bring server-side drafts support, performance improvements, and attachments support (limited at first, and it could be “tricky” as Windows Phone does not have a file manager app).

Head to the Windows Phone Store to get the MetroMail for those who need a “power” app to access all of the Gmail tools.

via wpcentral