Looking at the iPhone email demonstration by good old Steve Jobs last night, I immediately recognised that whilst the client demonstrated looked funky, it was quite probably nigh on 100% unusable for me, for any true business user.
Any system that can only display 6 emails on screen at once is problematic for me. I get tons. Tons. My business is conducted by email, which is why I was so delighted when I finally got hold of Good Mobile Messaging for the Nokia E61.
Much like standard mobile phone inboxes, the Apple iPhone mail application looks very similar in terms of restrictive abilities. I don’t get three emails a day, I get hundreds — maybe 400 or so, depending on what’s going on. Your average mobile phone mail inbox can’t take that. Even if it’s memory can deal with it, the scrolling probably screws it all up. Whilst you can easily flick up and down the iPhone Apple Mail, I don’t know if that will do it for me.
Now, if Good develop a client for the iPhone, assuming of course, that this is possible, that might be rather useful.
Otherwise, I’m pretty confident that the iPhone email client is one that, alas, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to use. I’ll wait and see though.
For your standard 3 emails a day user, the iPhone and a Yahoo Push Email system looks like it could be rather wicked.
Ideally, by the time this phone becomes 3G and makes it to markets outside North America, programmers with a sense of substance as well as style will have gotten their hands on the SDK for the iPhone.
Ewan, The fact that you get some many emails a day should not be the primary reason that you believe this application will not work for you when you buy your iphone.
What you need is to distinguish between priority emails, low priority and spam. Think into the future [like a few months from now] and we give you the means to filter your email, texts, voicemails and voice calls according to your own criteria.
Think of you being able to keep your top business contacts within one high level group and all of their communication to you become priority – the rest is sorted below this priority group, and then think that you can have an automatic voicemail issued back to the low priority emails telling the sender that you are busy but that you will look into their email in due course.
Plus any other functions you want added. We will sort your email problems out soon ………………………..
In addition I wonder if you will still use your Myspace/Facebook/Bebo accounts if they all pump the messaging in the community down to your mobile: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/10/facebook-goes-mobile/
As you would say this is total ARSE. If the social community sites think that flooding messages from the community to the mobile is ‘mobilizing’ they will soon learn that users will switch that feature off.
It seems that they have pretty much said that the iphone will *not* run third party applications.
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i miss my blackberry…
iPhone is best phone i have ever touched.. i have one for 1 day ;))