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Ewan's not one to beat around the bush - when he thinks that an application is essentially pointless, he comes right out and says so, here in his review of Yahoo! Go 3.0. In Go 3.0's defense, it IS pretty and it DOES make sense if you're a heavy Yahoo! user, but in essence it doesn't really do anything you couldn't do just as well using Yahoo's mobile site. Or Google's, and so on. http://www.hongblog.net
Read on in the full article.
Although I'm not particularly interested in Yahoo services, I thought I'd try this and was interested to see that following the supplied URL, I was faced with a lovely Welcome screen which even knew what phone I had (!) saying "Yahoo! invites you to upgrade to our best mobile experience for your Nokia E90 Communicator" then on the next screen "We're sorry! Your phone currently doesn't support Yahoo! Go". Ha! More like BT (British Telecom) every day! Actually, they're in cahoots aren't they?!
My wife is a Yahoo bod and she uses this client on her N81 and I have to admit that she can get to her email an awful lot quicker than I can, firing up my GMail app.
Tim
Yahoo! Go and GMail are both Java apps and should load in the same amount of time.
Although, wierdly, I've noticed that GMail does get slower with time. Maybe it starts caching stuff that then needs clearing out somehow? Anyone able to shed more light on GMail? And I *wish* they'd not a native S60 version...
hmmm, maybe the fact that they are completely different programs has something to do with the different startup times.
Yes, who knows what the Gmail java app does at startup (parsing a local XML file containing your existing inbox would be an educated guess) but since it is a different app to Yahoo the startup time could be entirely different! Surely app startup depends upon the size of the app and what the code does at startup rather than just "is it Java or native code"?
Any way, a native S60 version of the Gmail app is long overdue, the existing version does - sometimes - take a frustratingly long time to start, and I am at the point of using POP/IMAP with my Google mail account and the built in Nokia email app.
Why not use the regular phone email application with Gmail's imap? Go to Gmail preferences in a PC web browser to configure it.
Or, for that matter with Yahoo, why not use their pop3 delivery, again to the regular phone email application?
Advantages:
- Faster
- Integrated with phone contacts
- All email in one place
- Offline support for use on the tube where "live" email applets don't work
etc.
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I think the main advantage of the 'live' email for me at least, and lets face it, connection speed and availability is growing and growing - there will be connection in tube trains soon, won't there (?) - is that when you deal with an email or read an email it's clear about what's been done on the one gateway and one copy and no confusion about 'leaving it on the server' or 'marking as unread' to deal with later when you have a larger computer. I think that's a big plus for the way I work.
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