Best OS for Email

gam3r · 3 Jul 2011 at 11:44

Last time I tried K9, it didn't support push hotmail where as the stock android email client did, so I stuck with that.

Myshra · 4 Jul 2011 at 08:47

Currently I'd say BB but iOS 5 will probably make it on par from a business perspective. Androids stock client is a bit average and meeting invites tend to suck on it comparatively. WP7 is somewhere between android and BB for me.

Touchdown is probably a good compromise for you and I think there's a trial you can use as it's one of the more costlier apps.

gam3r · 4 Jul 2011 at 09:13

Quick question about iPhone and email. I've heard different things about push email and that it actually uses more battery than syncing every x mins. Is this true? I always thought push was a battery saver.

V4NT0M · 4 Jul 2011 at 10:31

Doesn't makes sense to me that push would use more battery unless it's something to do with the way the program is coded on the iphone.

Steve_bullockuk · 4 Jul 2011 at 10:34

gam3r said:
Quick question about iPhone and email. I've heard different things about push email and that it actually uses more battery than syncing every x mins. Is this true? I always thought push was a battery saver.

This is incorrect. I used gmail the normal way on my iPhone 4 and then switched to using it via exchange and push and the battery life was much better.

Myshra · 4 Jul 2011 at 10:55

In terms of technically what it's doing then push is open a connection with an extremely long timeout, handshake and use keep-alives to check the conn is still up then on-msg send content. Polling at interval requires you to setup a connection, handshake, sync then disconnect so in theory in the amount of data sent in polling should be more and thus drain the battery as long as the keepalive spam of push is kept to a minimum.