Best phone for receiving email

TheBrooder · 1 Sep 2010 at 16:05

I'm looking at the Samsung Galaxy, Iphone and HTC Desire etc. to receive email from my personal website (not gmail, yahoo, google etc.)

Do they all work as well as each other?

I've not had a phone for 5 years since I left the rat race and threw it in the bin so I'm really out of touch at the moment ...

wellibob · 1 Sep 2010 at 16:08

All 3 get email pretty well. Im no fan of apple, so i say iphone with gritted teeth !

Abraham · 1 Sep 2010 at 16:22

Android does pretty faultlessly for me, not sure if there's any difference between how a galaxy S and desire email app would work, think they both use the standard one.

reflux · 1 Sep 2010 at 16:24

Having owned two Android phones and an iPhone tbh I think you'd struggle to see much difference between them. They're all good. Best to base your decision on other features/specs of the phones.

brummie · 1 Sep 2010 at 16:26

the Desire has a brilliant mail app.

Amp34 · 1 Sep 2010 at 16:43

What about the Dell Streak? If it's just for emails then it's probably the best phone of the lot.

Mr Paul · 1 Sep 2010 at 17:01

All will be/are the same

Jongo · 1 Sep 2010 at 18:07

Only difference is that on andriod you will be able to change what email app to use. I use K9 mail find it a lot better than the stock app

TheBrooder · 1 Sep 2010 at 18:31

ahh good, glad I don't have to go down the iphone road

gam3r · 1 Sep 2010 at 18:55

BlackBerry no doubt if you want an emal focused handset.

roboffer · 1 Sep 2010 at 19:12

I use Google anyway for my personal domain too. Infinitely better that any other web mail client I've used.

Ksanti · 1 Sep 2010 at 19:28

gam3r said:
BlackBerry no doubt if you want an emal focused handset.

Depends if he's sending them so much as purely receiving updates via email.

The blackberry will ultimately be very useful as business tool but the smaller, lower resolution screen will make the long emails a pain.

All of those phones you mentioned are purely touch input, you may want to wait until the Motorola Milestone 2 if you want to be sending emails, as that will have the same performance and rough screen size as the two android phones mentioned, with the addition of a huge qwerty keyboard

TheBrooder · 1 Sep 2010 at 20:07

It is more for just receiving and sending a quick reply so there won't be any lengthy typing 90% of the time.

I'll see who does the best offer for the samsung and the HTC.