I've been looking around for a HTML e-mail app for the 5800, and this is the only app I've found so far.
These can be seen as some of the plus points of the app:
- Easy setup. You can either setup your email account through the phone itself or via the
the website.
- Connectivity to multiple e-mail services (hotmail, yahoo, gmail, etc).
- Ability to run in the background and near instantaneuous mail retrieval.
However, the app definitely needs to improve in the following aspects:
- Touch optimization: at the moment the touch operability of the app on the 5800 is really poor.
Areas like scrolling, opening links within mails, switching mail boxes is really cumbersome
when you use just your fingers. With the stylus, performance is a bit better, but overall this
requires much improvement.
- Installation and mail storage: the app does not give you an option to select either where the
app will be installed or where downloaded emails will be stored and by installs itself into
the phone's memory and all downloaded messages and attachments are also stored in
phone memory. This cuases the C drive fill up and you will end up having to delete
mails every so often to make space.
- Lack of graphical notification: currently the app only features new mail notification by way
of tone and vibration alerts. In case you miss the alert tone, you wont know that you've
got new mail till you go into the app the next time. There definitely has to be visual
notification when you receive new mails.
- Color schemes: the current color scheme of the app looks very dull and there are no
options to manually change the colors either. Ideally, the color scheme of the app
should also change as per the color schemes used by the theme in use.
- Use of gestures for mail operations: such as tilting leaft and right o reply and forward,
turning over to send, shaking to delete a mail, etc.,
Since the app is still in Beta State, we can hope that Nokia will take into consideration these
and other issues and will make the app much better one for final release.