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Zaprudering the iPhone commercials: email

by Erica Sadun Jun 4th 2007 at 7:00AM

The iPhone commercials that just recently aired offered a nice look into some of the built-in programs in action. Take email, for example. It's one of the four main iPhone modes (the other three are: Phone, Safari and iPod). The videos revealed a number of mail features:

  • The number of unread new mail items in your inbox appears over the mail icon in the dock at the bottom of the iPhone main menu.
  • In the inbox, unread items are tagged with a familiar blue dot. The standard blue paperclip indicates attachments.
  • When displaying individual emails, a taskbar at the bottom of the screen presumably allows you to refresh your inbox, transfer mail to folders, delete mail, reply to the current message and write a new message. At the top of the screen a button may lead you back to the current mailbox, show you which item you are viewing in the mailbox (e.g. 2 of 11) and allow you to move to the previous or next message. Direct actions on the message scroll you up and down the currently displayed email.

Zaprudering iPhone email

  • The inbox
  • Viewing a message
  • Zooming Back


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BdeRWest

@ 16: Well, .Mac and Yahoo! might be push e-mail, but tons of others are only POP3 (including Gmail). So why would you make a phone that doesnt' cater to both?

June 05 2007 at 5:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Marcelo S. Sandoval

The calendar widget displays the current date (based on the date on the phone in the opening shot)! I assume it will refresh on a daily basis to show the current date every day.

June 05 2007 at 1:11 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Darren

Hmmm. That UI looks amazing, but a refresh button? Last updated? That doesn't sound like push email to me.

June 04 2007 at 8:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
brian

But enough about email. Did anyone else catch that the 'Maps' icon shows Apple's campus?
http://www.google.com/search?q=1+infinite+loop,+cupertino,+ca
It jumped out at me because of the '280' icon (I used to live in the area) and upon closer inspection I noticed a distinctive street shape. :-)

June 04 2007 at 6:29 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
miguel

For me cutting my computer teeth on a tandy ex, the iphone just blows me away. I put off buying a new cell phone for now. saving for a iphone :-)

June 04 2007 at 1:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
russell

9:42 is probably a rounding error up from 941, the dimensions of the life-giving monolith in 2001. Let's hope that's not due to an Intel chip error.

June 04 2007 at 12:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Moose

I wonder what happens to the mail numerical icon when you exceed 99 emails. Pill shaped icon, maybe?

June 04 2007 at 11:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nick

@5:

I think the first button is Refresh. See the shot of the inbox, with the same icon to the left of the "Updated" time.

June 04 2007 at 11:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Matty G

I never knew this previously, but if you look at the inbox, in the upper left corner it has a button for Mailboxes, so maybe you could have multiple accounts, could be interesting.

This could be old news, but it's a first for me.

June 04 2007 at 10:12 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
CyBeR

The iPhone runs MacOS X. Not so much Leopard, as leopard is quite specifically for macs and the iPhone isn't one.

June 04 2007 at 10:10 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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