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Enrico Bonardo said 8:47AM on 2-28-2008
I agree with those say that iPhone's email client isn't the best feature out there..
First I couldn't add my Hotmail account because Hotmail is not supported. Then I had to follow a quite difficult procedure to set my Gmail IMAP account. Obviusly I can't use my Gmail account at work from my iPhone because there is a corporate firewall that closes the ports needed by Mail Up to connect with the server.
For these I started to try some web app to manage my mails in freedom. And I found one that works very good at www.tm.comvalid.com.
But I'd like to have the same freedom in managing my accounts in the iPhone Mail client, too.
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dan said 3:11PM on 1-19-2008
I am dying for one specific enhancement... When I'm in one account reading mail, I would like a home button that brings me back to the main accounts page, instead of having to navigate all the way back one screen at a time. This seems like an obvious UI flaw, but oddly, I don't hear too many people complain about it...
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dan said 3:13PM on 1-19-2008
I am dying for one specific enhancement... When I'm in one account reading mail, I would like a home button that brings me back to the main accounts page, instead of having to navigate all the way back one screen at a time. This seems like an obvious UI flaw, but oddly, I don't hear too many people complain about it...
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Michel said 3:17PM on 1-19-2008
>I don't hear too many people complain about it...
because it would convenient but I happily go pages by pages fastly. not a big deal.
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about html idle, yes, the iphone is not a computer with the speed of a big one. it's a shame, surely, but a future iphone will use a faster cpu I think. it's still useable.
you can see mobile safari take some time to compose the final rendering to. specially when you move up and down the page.
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Hecktic said 3:21PM on 1-19-2008
iphone 1.1.3 jail broken!!! head over to iphoneatlas.com or here's the youtube video link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idxxKVM1Cno
not out to public but give it a couple of days
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Mystic said 3:28PM on 1-19-2008
And some people WOULDN'T like this view, including me. Everyone can't have everything.
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William said 4:16PM on 1-19-2008
That's why toggle buttons were invented. You would be able to select list view or dual-pane view.
Bob Boyle said 3:38PM on 1-19-2008
Ever since Google revamped their Webapps, I've been using Gmail through the web browser pretty exclusively. The iPhone is great, but mail.app blows.
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ddebor said 4:03PM on 1-19-2008
One thing I noticed after upgrading to 1.1.3 is that when I use the "Slide to View" feature to go to a text message it takes longer than normal time to load a text.
Anyone else notice this?
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Brendan West said 4:17PM on 1-19-2008
Actually, I've had this delay problem since day 1. I assumed it was because SMS was stored by AT&T server-side.
Either way, it's freaking annoying.
aj_robins said 4:07PM on 1-19-2008
Yeah, iPhone mail is about the poorest-featured mail app out there. Just about every other email app has more features and functionality. No sort options, no threading ability, no searching, etc.. For gmail, you pretty much have to use gmail's new web interface. Even ancient command-line-based email programs (like the ancient "elm" for Unix) has more features.
The only thing, that iPhone mail has going for it, is it's use of different fonts: for example, unlike gmail's new web interface, the iPhone's 2-line preview is useful and readable, whereas the gmail interface doesn't show you much.
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Kory Hearn said 4:16PM on 1-19-2008
I hate the fact that you can't delete multiple messages or mark them read on the iPhone.
I still don't see why they cut the split view from the actual release. Maybe some 3rd party application will eventually fix this issue.
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cmb said 4:17PM on 1-19-2008
I wish you could set it to check messages every minute instead of every ten.
Also Iv'e notice many times I had email and the stupid thing didn't even notify me.
Anyone else have that problem?
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Brendan West said 5:20PM on 1-19-2008
Yeah. Suspiciously I don't get any e-mails all day, then I launch Mail and 25 download and it *bings*, as if nothing were wrong with that.
Carter Neal said 4:22PM on 1-19-2008
It's easy to complain, but I find mail on the iphone to be fast, responsive, and simple to use. We aren't carrying around a complete laptop in our pockets, after all. And while I know the blackberry has some of the features we'd like, it is a more mature platform. One of the nice features of the iphone is that its software can be updated and improved. We'll get some things soon enough, and while I'd love to have multiple deletes and a freak-N copy/cut/paste ability, I'm still pleased with what the device does in its first few months of life.
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eric f. said 4:22PM on 1-19-2008
I used my Treo for so many years, I really miss the searching of contacts in my addressbook by typing in the first few letters. I need this on my iPhone!!
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Nicholas said 4:47PM on 1-19-2008
I wrote about some iphone improvements on my blog. Nothing related with global search or copy and paste (these ones we know apple have to deliver).
http://blog.nonlinear.cc/old/improving-the-iphone-interface/
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Nicholas said 4:26PM on 1-19-2008
I wrote about some iphone improvements on my blog. Nothing related with global search or copy and paste (these ones we know apple have to deliver).
http://blog.nonlinear.cc/old/improving-the-iphone-interface/
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fubufighters said 4:36PM on 1-19-2008
I'm guessing this feature was abandoned in favor of the "Edit" button which makes cleaning up your inbox easier (and makes the interface more uniform through SMS & everything).
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Jerrod said 4:45PM on 1-19-2008
I don't find myself wanting a double-pane view, as the n-line preview function serves just as well.
However, as someone with 6 eMail accounts, I desperately need a 'unified' inbox. That, or at least some way to reduce the **6 TAPS** that are required to go from an eMail in one Inbox to another eMail in a different account's Inbox.
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