Dropbox Rolls Out Mailbox for Android, Carousel Photo

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Dropbox on Wednesday introduced a slew of new services, features, and improvements to existing products, including a new email client for Android devices, beefed up collaboration and IT management tools for business users, and Carousel, a means for organizing photos.

'Technology is this thing that's supposed to make things better, easier, but instead it makes things more complicated,' Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston said at a press event in San Francisco.

'So Dropbox is here to help, to ease the pain, to make you comfortable again. We like solving big problems like that, problems that are big and they're painful and they affect millions of people.'

All of the new services and tools developed by Dropbox are part of the company's vision of creating what it calls 'A Home for Life' for its users, Houston said.

Mailbox for Android (right) offers the same basic user experience as Mailbox for iOS, and is available now in Google Play. In addition to the familiar swipe-based interface for archiving, snoozing, and deleting emails in the mobile email client, Mailbox for Android also introduces Auto-Swipe, a 'learning' feature built into the platform that predicts broad actions users tend to take with certain types of emails from certain senders.

Auto-Swipe is available now with Mailbox for Android and is 'coming soon' to the iOS email client, the company said.

Dropbox on Wednesday also released a beta version of a new email client for PCs called Mailbox for Desktop-though its use of a trackpad to simulate the swiping actions used in the mobile versions of Mailbox suggest this service will appeal to laptop users more than folks using traditional trackpad-less desktops.

The cloud storage and file-sharing service also beefed up its admin and collaboration tool suites for Dropbox for Business. With the improved service, IT administrators can now separate users' personal Dropboxes from their company ones while also gaining access to tools like Remote Wipe, Audit Logs, Account Transfer, and more.

Meanwhile, Houston said Dropbox also set out to 'reimagine how people collaborate' in developing new file-sharing features as part of the company's Project Harmony. Essentially, Dropbox users have long complained about problems arising when multiple users make changes to a document at the same time, causing a lot of wasted work.

Now available in Dropbox for Business is a new feature for Microsoft Office which alerts a user who's editing a document that another user has opened as well. So the familiar green Dropbox checkmark, which springs up when the document is opened by the first user, now changes to a blue circle that says '+1' when a second user arrives and even generates an IM conversation window so the two can converse about changes being made. For more, check out the video below.

Finally, Dropbox rolled out a new photo storage and archiving system called Carousel, which is capable of storing and sorting 'tens of thousands of photos arranged chronologically for a lifetime of memories,' the company said.

With Carousel, Dropbox users have quick access to their photos, can send hundreds of them at a time to others, and can select from private or public sharing options. Carousel from Dropbox is now available for iOS and Android, the company said.

Why customers love Dropbox for Business from Dropbox on Vimeo.