N900 Videos

Mark from thenokiablog.com shows how the email application works on the N900.

The walkthrough starts with Nokia Messaging already set up on the device, although Mark shows us how Nokia’s setup wizard allows you to choose from a long list of preconfigured service providers, including of course the usual ones like Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail, plus Ovi Mail, Exchange and many, many more.

Once it’s set up you see a scrolling list of your messages (with unread messages coloured orange). There’s a “New Message” button at the top of the list. Click on a message title to read it, then on the Image icon if you want to load the images. If you’re on a slow connection, or an expensive one, you may prefer not to load the images.

The application makes good use of screen real estate. While reading an email, the message occupies the full width of the display. There’s a row of icons along the bottom: “Reply”, “Reply to All”, “Forward”, “Send to Trash”, “Load Images”, “Back” and “Forward”.

Hitting “Reply” brings up a simple window showing sender, recipient, subject and the message text. You can change the email account that you send from. You can select the font, text size, text colour, bold and italic. When you’re finished there’s a “Send” button.

No mention was made of attachments in this video. Everything that was shown looks pretty smooth, however if you click through to the blog post you’ll see a list of shortcomings that Mark experienced when using this pre-release application, together with some screenshots.