Yep this is something that should have been a version 1.0 feature and still no word.
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Apple Enhances Email and Enterprise Features in iPhone OS 4
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Yep this is something that should have been a version 1.0 feature and still no word.
Multiple Exchange (ie. Activesync) accounts will be welcomed.
This means that you can have your personal Gmail and work Exchange accounts running on the same device.
This means that you can have your personal Gmail and work Exchange accounts running on the same device.
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This needs to happen if they are serious about this being both a personal and enterprise device. And it would be so damn easy. Any word if it's in there?
Pagemakers said:
This needs to happen if they are serious about this being both a personal and enterprise device. And it would be so damn easy. Any word if it's in there?
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I am with you - if you have personal and work email on one device, you probably don't want a unified inbox. But my understanding is that they also have fast inbox switching, which is the solution I've been asking for. So I think it's a case where they actually gave everyone what they want.
xIGmanIx said:
I am with you - if you have personal and work email on one device, you probably don't want a unified inbox. But my understanding is that they also have fast inbox switching, which is the solution I've been asking for. So I think it's a case where they actually gave everyone what they want.
iPhone 3g
What? Still no hands-free voice dialing on the 3g? I live in Washington state where a new law makes using a cell phone without a hands free device is a primary offense and it looks like the lack of this BASIC feature will force me to go to an Android phone... sorry Apple, you missed the boat on this and will likely lose customers because of it!
What? Still no hands-free voice dialing on the 3g? I live in Washington state where a new law makes using a cell phone without a hands free device is a primary offense and it looks like the lack of this BASIC feature will force me to go to an Android phone... sorry Apple, you missed the boat on this and will likely lose customers because of it!
Threaded messages would be EXCELLENT, as long as it's similar to the GMail implementation...
(not the Outlook implementation in which you can easily miss a message if multiple responses arrive at different times. And in which finding the hidden 'unread' message can be a beaoch).
I also really hope they still allow separated accounts and don't just force the unified inbox.
I prefer my WORK account to be totally separate from my PERSONAL account, but I'd still like to be able to use Exchange for both.
And it'll be interesting to see if they allow (and how it would work) to sync multiple Exchange contacts and/or multiple Exchange calendars.
(not the Outlook implementation in which you can easily miss a message if multiple responses arrive at different times. And in which finding the hidden 'unread' message can be a beaoch).
I also really hope they still allow separated accounts and don't just force the unified inbox.
I prefer my WORK account to be totally separate from my PERSONAL account, but I'd still like to be able to use Exchange for both.
And it'll be interesting to see if they allow (and how it would work) to sync multiple Exchange contacts and/or multiple Exchange calendars.
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Logic does not compute. If you're buying a new phone over this issue, you could go to a 3gs or next gen iPhone, which have (and will have) this feature, just as easily as you could buy an android phone. If you're buying android out of spite that apple did not put voice dialing on your 3g then just say so.
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Logic does not compute. If you're buying a new phone over this issue, you could go to a 3gs or next gen iPhone, which have (and will have) this feature, just as easily as you could buy an android phone. If you're buying android out of spite that apple did not put voice dialing on your 3g then just say so.
did mention that can set wallpaper for home screen and lock screen to a photograph. Can get static info on the screen. If talking about clock/etc widgets then it is still no from your perspective.
A lt of these features are dependent on Microsoft and the development of activesync. Exchange 2010 just came out with these new features
Your logic is the one that doesn't compute. If a vendor doesn't provide a service you expect the answer is to give that vendor more money???? What? That's isn't spite that is how markets work. Don't buy from folks who don't deliver. Rewarding vendors for disappointment and non delivery is illogical.
What is illogical though is why there was any expectation that the 3G phone might possibly get voice dialing. Inexplicably, Apple had left that feature off their phones. It isn't even really a smartphone feature, Motorola Razor/Krzr line and other non-smart phones had this feature years before the orginal iPhone was introduced. Not sure what the hang up is here.
The 3G didn't get that feature upgrade last year with the iPhone OS bump (and GS arrival). Not sure why would expect it to show up now a year after they skipped it. Kind of like expecting the 3G to get multitasking with iPhone OS 5.0 ; not going to happen. Once the hardware version has been skipped that a permanent state. If they hand't finished implementing would have held it back across the board or made some "coming soon" note.
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He said apple was forcing him to buy android because his 3g cannot voice dial. What he means is, apple is forcing him to buy *some* phone that does voice dial. That could be android, a 3gs, or lots of others (as you point out). So yeah, his logic does not compute.
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He said apple was forcing him to buy android because his 3g cannot voice dial. What he means is, apple is forcing him to buy *some* phone that does voice dial. That could be android, a 3gs, or lots of others (as you point out). So yeah, his logic does not compute.
Umm.. You can do this already. If you're in the middle of typing a message just hit the home button while you're still in your email. Then go to Photos and hit the little forward arrow in the lower left of the screen to select multiple photos and then select copy. Then just go back into email and paste. The email you've been typing is still there and you just added your pics. You can also copy and paste them one by one by touch-holding to copy each but that's no fun...
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"Apple Enhances Email and Enterprise Features in iPhone OS 4".
Enhances? What other enterprise specific features where made available, by Apple, before this one? None?
I tell you this, as a tech writer and Apple stock holder; Apple wasn't too serious about enterprise users when they introduced the first iPhone. Not even when they introduced the 3GS. I mean all these "new features" should have been made available right from the start... or at least iPhone 2.0
"Apple Enhances Email and Enterprise Features in iPhone OS 4".
Enhances? What other enterprise specific features where made available, by Apple, before this one? None?
I tell you this, as a tech writer and Apple stock holder; Apple wasn't too serious about enterprise users when they introduced the first iPhone. Not even when they introduced the 3GS. I mean all these "new features" should have been made available right from the start... or at least iPhone 2.0
I've used multiple email clients on various operating systems, and although most of Apple Mail features are great, the Thread feature is implemented poorly.
Unlike *true* threads, apple mail creates threads based on the subject line alone, which:
Use GMail instead, it's pretty much the best mail client out there.
Unlike *true* threads, apple mail creates threads based on the subject line alone, which:
- Any message in the thread that has had it's subject line changed no longer shows in the thread.
- Any message that's *not* in the thread, but happens to have the same subject line, becomes part of the thread.
Use GMail instead, it's pretty much the best mail client out there.
Change are very nice, though I wish I could color-code accounts. There also appears to be at least one additional new feature that you can turn on in settings (at least I never noticed it before).
all those features are dependent on ActiveSync. apple and MS didn't sign their agreement until May 2008. and MS is constantly developing ActiveSync with new features
So still no usable signatures? This should have been in version 2, a personal email box needs to have a different signature to a work one. Seems like os4 brings us things that the jailbreaking community had since version 2 and little else other than adverts, joy
I am just now watching the video and thought the EXACT same thing. No GMail love. I hope it's still included in OS4, but I fear it wont be.
Apple can't be that dumb. Can you imagine the outcry of their customers if they removed Gmail? Though I figure you'd still be able to just add it as a regular IMAP account.
Mark all as read would still be nice, but I think at this point Apple will never add that feature.
Ugh, I ran into that the other day and was looking for a way to mark all the messages as read and couldn't believe that the feature wasn't there.
And please, Apple, see fit to allows us little people to have more than one signature. This restriction is one of the most baffling and ridiculous things I've ever seen on a smartphone. It's like they never considered that people would have personal and professional email accounts on the same device.
