I’ve been a Hotmail user for about 10 years now and many other email accounts have come and gone but I always kept my Hotmail account as my main account. It is disappointing that Apple and Microsoft do not communicate well in term of Hotmail services. The Mail app on Macs does not work well with the regular Hotmail accounts and I am not a Hotmail Plus user. A while ago I got Entourage on my Mac and it has been working well with it, since I’ve been with Hotmail for so long they allowed me access to it from Entourage. A friend of mine has had hotmail for about three years and this access was not given to him, that’s why I think that seniority made a difference on this.
Last year I got an iPhone 3g fully expecting problems with my hotmail issue which made me start using my Gmail address a bit more but it is hard when for 10 years all my contacts are on Hotmail. Some people tried to give me options on how to access it and none of them was too successful. I understand that a while ago the Mail app started working on the iPhone for Hotmail but it is really limited, giving access to only the main inbox and sending and receiving mail.
A few months ago I searched online for a way of having full access to my Hotmail account with my iPhone and found mBox mail. mBox mail is a full featured Hotmail/Live app for the iPhone. Iuse it so much that I barely check my email on my computer anymore. It is fast, reliable and effective. Here is a list of some of my favorite features on mBox mail:
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The ability to see all my mail folders other than just my inbox.
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Internal Browser
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More than one photo can be added to emails.
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All contacts are directly accessible from the application, your Hotmail ones and your iPhone ones.
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The ability to see formats other than just text, for example Powerpoint presentations.
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Full email search.
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Password protect your email if desired.
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Full landscape support on all screens.
Seriously, this is one of the top apps on my iPhone not only for how useful it is but how well made it also is. If you have Hotmail or Live Mail and want to have the best access there is, all the time, to your email you need to get mBox mail. What’s even best, the new 2.0 version was released today with a revamped, beautiful user interface that is 100% better than the regular Mail app. To celebrate this new release, the new edition has a %50 discount making it foolish not to get it. You will never need another mail app!
Click here to see the mBox website…
Or here to see it in the App store…
[...] my opinion is 100 times better than Mail. Their new update just came out and you can read my review here, it has a %50 [...]
[...] my opinion is 100 times better than Mail. Their new update just came out and you can read my review here, it has a %50 [...]