iPhone e-mail starting to annoy me
Deleting a lot of e-mail on the iPhone is a lot of work.
(Credit: Apple)My biggest concern was the keyboard. Having used the Prada phone, I expected the worst. Surprisingly, the iPhone keyboard starts to feel comfortable fairly quickly. Within a few days, I went from typing two out of every three letters incorrectly down to just one in five wrong. That gives hope.
E-mail, though, is another story, making me long for my BlackBerry. Sure, Yahoo allegedly provides the same RIM-type push mail. But it's simply not as quick or easy to knock out a sentence or two on the iPhone.
More annoyingly, it appears there is no way to delete all your mail at once. You have to erase each individually. Even worse, it seems many of us find 50 or so older messages transferred over. Delete them one by one? Sure. But then another 50 old ones pop up. Mail needs work!
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Anyone familiar with how a blackberry works? Even if deleting one email at a
time were acceptable, its not here because the iPhone has to pause for 10
seconds or so after every 2 or 3 individual emails deleted, and during that
pause the whole damn iphone is frozen. What is it doing, pooping them out
somewhere?
2. It is ass-slow. This is not just a problem for the web browser, although the
web browser is surely slow. It ain't even great when its on wi-fi, but edge will
put your teeth on edge. Its also a huge problem for email. Email can be
delayed for hours before it shows up on the iphone. Then, it can take minutes
from the time you tap an email in the inbox until it appears on the screen.
Sometimes -- no, strike that -- often, it never appears at all, and you get
some message like "content was not loaded" or whatnot.
Web browser, on the up side, is better than a blackberry in that it displays
almost any web page accurately, and deals easily with frames, java and
whatnot. The bad part is that it is SLOW. Using it means staring at a blank,
white screen for much of the time, making you feel like a schmuck.
3. Unlike a blackberry, you can't just hit "reply" and respond to the email
sender if your primary email is outlook, because you're forwarding your
emails from outlook to your web-based email client. Bottom line is, for a
blackberry user, iphone is wholly inadequate as an email solution.
4. Why can't emails and attachments be viewed in landscape mode, like web
pages? Duh.
5. The user interface is, admittedly, very nice. Now we just need to marry it to
a device that has the email functionality of a blackberry.
6. Oh yea, web browser again. Quits back to the main screen very frequently
for no apparent reason. When it does that, the page you were on is lost. You
have to navigate back to it. It is not saved in the web page overview.
7. The camera and the cellphone functionality are reasonably nice. On voice
mail, it is nice to have the voice mail local, makes retrieving it a breeze. The
sms functionality is reasonably nice too. But without fixing email and web
browsing, I'm afraid the iPhone is a turkey.
- You and me both
- by albcwc August 3, 2007 3:09 PM PDT
- 1. Yes, no mass deletion of email. Deleting on the computer is no answer.
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(4 Comments)Anyone familiar with how a blackberry works? Even if deleting one email at a
time were acceptable, its not here because the iPhone has to pause for 10
seconds or so after every 2 or 3 individual emails deleted, and during that
pause the whole damn iphone is frozen. What is it doing, pooping them out
somewhere?
2. It is ass-slow. This is not just a problem for the web browser, although the
web browser is surely slow. It ain't even great when its on wi-fi, but edge will
put your teeth on edge. Its also a huge problem for email. Email can be
delayed for hours before it shows up on the iphone. Then, it can take minutes
from the time you tap an email in the inbox until it appears on the screen.
Sometimes -- no, strike that -- often, it never appears at all, and you get
some message like "content was not loaded" or whatnot.
Web browser, on the up side, is better than a blackberry in that it displays
almost any web page accurately, and deals easily with frames, java and
whatnot. The bad part is that it is SLOW. Using it means staring at a blank,
white screen for much of the time, making you feel like a schmuck.
3. Unlike a blackberry, you can't just hit "reply" and respond to the email
sender if your primary email is outlook, because you're forwarding your
emails from outlook to your web-based email client. Bottom line is, for a
blackberry user, iphone is wholly inadequate as an email solution.
4. Why can't emails and attachments be viewed in landscape mode, like web
pages? Duh.
5. The user interface is, admittedly, very nice. Now we just need to marry it to
a device that has the email functionality of a blackberry.
6. Oh yea, web browser again. Quits back to the main screen very frequently
for no apparent reason. When it does that, the page you were on is lost. You
have to navigate back to it. It is not saved in the web page overview.
7. The camera and the cellphone functionality are reasonably nice. On voice
mail, it is nice to have the voice mail local, makes retrieving it a breeze. The
sms functionality is reasonably nice too. But without fixing email and web
browsing, I'm afraid the iPhone is a turkey.