Windows Phone Thoughts: WebIS @Mail Beta Reviewed

"One of the most highly anticipated pieces of software as of late has to be WebIS’s @Mail – an Inbox replacement application. If you have been around Pocket PCs for any amount of time then you are probably familiar with WebIS’s flagship product Pocket Informant. The only part of Pocket Outlook that PI doesn’t replace is the Inbox. From the first discussion forum I ever participated in, I can remember users complaining about the lack of functionality in the Inbox. @Mail is certainly not the first replacement for the Inbox, but with PI’s track record, I don’t think it will be too long before @Mail becomes a household name – well, in the Pocket PC world anyway."



I've been looking forward to the final release of @mail for quite some time. I was never a heavy Pocket Inbox user because, until getting the XDA, I didn't use my Pocket PC to check email. I had a Socket DPC, but found the two body + cable solution ugly. Since getting my XDA, mobile email is now a reality - yet the limitations of Pocket Inbox are so glaring it hurts, and it's not something I realized until using the XDA. 8O

What's the point of being able to triage email, like deleting spam, if it stays on the server only to show up later in Outlook when you download the same email again locally? Big corporations use Exchange and IMAP, where you have the ability to delete messages off the server, but the rest of the world uses POP - and Microsoft seems to ignore that. Anyway, rant over - for now. :twisted: @mail is coming, and it looks very promising! Look for a Pocket PC Thoughts review and purchase links coming in the next couple of days...