24 February 2009

iPhone Missing Features - Email

This is the first in a series of posts I'm going to make about the iPhone. After months of use, its just amazing that they iPhone is missing core features that I need and want, I was holding off thinking they will be included with the next update, but they don't seem to be coming.

This post I will talk about the features missing in Email.

  • You can only view 200 messages, that's like a day's worth for me, useless, cant get to messages I received or sent last week. The blackberry had a last 30 days option, with the iPhone memory there is no logical reason to have such a small limit.
  • You can't search messages, if they fix the limit of 200 messages, they need to add search so that you can search and find a message your looking for.
  • When you reply to an email you get an icon indicating you replied, but there is no way jumping to or seeing that reply
  • No way to set message importance, don't get this, it's like iPhone decided no one uses this and left it out.

I encourage you post your issues with iPhone email features, they have done a really half ass job of this, and its all fixable via a software update. When BlackBerry people talk to be about how I like my iPhone I tell them I miss the features of a BlackBerry. You can't really do business email on an iPhone.

13 comments:

kiran said...

Quite intresting...Thanks

Flug said...

Hmm this is realy a interesting point! But could we change it with a update ?

Anonymous said...

I agree. As a past Blackberry user, I find the iphones email functionality weak in comparison. Apple needs to get this fixed asap!

Anonymous said...

I am sure there should be some app out there to fix these issues..Sorry, its just an assumption without any research.

3DScann said...

I find email and iphone OK. I need no more than that.

George said...

Also, I notice that my email in iPhone only downloads folders from certain sites such as Gmail and Yahoo. Windows Live, MSN and Hotmail don't. What's up with that? This isn't anyway to save attachments unless it's a photo

undelete files said...

I totally agree.

George said...

It's funny, I had a Samsung Blackjack 2 with Windows mobile as the OS and when I added my Yahoo account to my email it didn't add any folders other than the inbocx, sent, draft and trash and I have over 50+ folders. When I got my iPhone it Yahoo and Gmail added all my folders but it was my Hotmail accounts that didn't add the folders. On both instances I call MSN the first time and with my iPhone I called Apple and MSN. Both times they passed the buck to the other person. With my BJ2 MSN said it was Yahoo, the iPhone they said it was MSN and MSN said it was Apple. Come on people work together here

Knigge Blog said...

One more reason I tend to think of Apple products as not much more than prestige items. there always are cheaper and more useful versions, its the same with the new ipad.

Thomson said...

Nice features should iphone update for users

John Hayes said...

I like the most, the iphone Because of cool app it has

Discount Kiss said...

I have an iPhone too. Interesting post. Thanks

Marketing Services said...

Hmm.. interesting and annoying. Hopefully the new iPhone 5 coming out will solve all your problems.