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Admittedly, email on Nokia’s devices have been a bit of an up-and-down scenario over the years, with the Nokia Messaging service and the company’s big push behind… well…. push email back in 2008-2009.
The Nokia Messaging service though had its fair share of configuration problems and downtime once in a while that’s thankfully, well in the past now. Email on Nokia’s latest Symbian devices is arguably pretty much as reliable as other platforms, and that’s carried on to the Nokia N9.
Your inbox view carries on the Harmattan UI’s minimalistic view, with a blue bar on the side denoting new emails.
I’m not quite a fan of how you can only see 4 emails at once, but you can always scroll downwards if you’d need to see more. Just not very glance-friendly is all I’m saying. The fonts are very Windows Phone-like with larger bolder text denoting the subject and sender. At the bottom you have a + icon to compose a new email, a refresh icon to re-sync if you think you have new email and want to check, and the usual options icon.
The options key lets you mark or unmark an email folder as a favorite, sort by time or sender, move or delete emails or mark emails as read. You can also view other inbox folders.
Tapping on an email opens it to the view you see below:
Sender, Subject, Time and Date are at the top, and if you have the sender in your contact list with a display picture, it would be displayed here too. There’s full HTML support and at the bottom of the screen you have a back button, reply button, forward, delete and again the usual options icon.
The options key lets you move the email to another folder, or mark it as read.
The compose screen is pretty simple and self explanatory.
You can tap on the text entry part of the screen if you want to view or change text options, which is the first time I’ve seen such a feature on a Nokia phone.
Coming to the onscreen keyboard for a sec, I have to say, it’s one of the most accurate we’ve used. I’d even say it was right up there with the iOS onscreen keyboard.
Keys are well spaced out and not cramped at all thanks to the nice large screen. Even the typing sound is fun. Definitely one of my top three onscreen keyboards next to iOS and Windows Phone.
Coming to Messaging, the N9 handles it in a very nice manner, with a seperate ‘Messages’ app that handles all SMS, MMS, and Facebook Chat, Gtalk and other IMs, all in one place.
Very convenient in my opinion. When you start a conversation with someone, you can choose from a list of people who are currently online, or do what I do, wait for someone to say something to you first:
There’s also a neat little icon to denote on which service your conversation is taking place (i.e: Facebook, or Google Talk, etc).
Coming the services, as we’ve mentioned before on the blog, the N9 has a separate ‘Accounts‘ section where you can add all your accounts.
You can also choose to go online or change your service availability status from here. There’s plenty of services to choose from too, including Mail for Exchange email, calendar and contacts:
More than enough for most people.
Once you add an inbox, for example a Google account, you can tinker with more settings like Sync time, Signatures, etc.
Worth noting is that you can also add multiple IM and Email accounts too, which is a definitely plus point in my book.
So as you can see, the Nokia N9 handles email pretty decently, along with very strong IM/Chat support for services.
We didnt really have any problems with email syncing, but we did see one or two folks on twitter having problems with that. We can only judge based on our retail unit, and its all good over here. Here’s a quick overview of Email and Messaging on the N9, just to give you a better idea:
I’m sure we must have missed something, so if you have any questions, do let us know, in the comments below.
Clinton is currently based in New Delhi, India and is executive editor for UnleashThePhones. He is responsible for all editorial decisions, and covers all forms of Mobile and mobile-related accessories.
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Very nice Fonts Used by Nokia ( impressed ) ......
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