Green robot

Gmail chat started showing green, orange and red bubble robots.

All these icons show the status of your friends online. Friends who currently use phones with the Android operating system (Android).

Feature available in Gmail Labs .

In the case in the picture, Shirley on an Android site, Nicoller R uses simple Gmail Chat, and Chris I is temporarily not available on Android. Slatka is busy and she is also on Android.

According to Google, these additional icons will help users make decisions. After all, it is obvious that if your friend uses the phone, then you need to contact him with shorter messages, like SMS.

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