Ah , morning — clip to mark off the overnight e - mail that make out in over the iPhone . Let ’s get to work !
bid the iPhone ’s magnate button . bug the silver screen ( that ’s screen spigot # 1 ) and drag the unlock slider . Press the Home button to get back to the chief screen from whatever app I was using last on the iPhone . Tap ( # 2 ) the Mail icon . Oops , I left the iPhone reading a subject matter the last clip I was in Mail . rap three times ( # 3 , # 4 , # 5 ) to get back to the tilt of accounts .
It ’s on this screen where you ’ll notice a big change from OS X ’s Mail programme . In OS X ’s Mail program , the top - level folder is the global Inbox , and then within that folder , each of your invoice is list separately , let you easily look at all of your new Es - post at once by just select the top level Inbox folder . On the iPhone , however , there is no global Inbox . or else , the main Mail filmdom just show a leaning of your report . You have to open up each score to see the Inbox ( and Trash and any other folders associated with that write up ) .
After the iPhone has retrieved the new due east - ring armor , it ’s time to check the newfangled messages in the first news report . Tap ( # 6 ) the accounting name , rap ( # 7 ) the Inbox in the list of brochure associated with that account , and then tip ( # 8) into and ( # 9 ) out of each new message . Want to mark all of them read at once ( say , if they ’re all spam ) ? Sorry , ca n’t do that . You have to open each e - mail to change its status . OK , done with that account , so I ’m wait at its list of messages . pat ( # 10 ) Inbox to go back to the list of folders for that account , then tap ( # 11 ) Accounts to go back to the inclination of accounts .
Time for the second tocopherol - chain armour account . Three spigot ( # 12 through # 15 ) to get into the account and then into a new message , then three taps ( # 16 through # 18 ) to get back to the chronicle list . Without counting the taps to read each e - mail , that ’s six taps to dive into a given account , read one message , and then jump back up to the chronicle list . So far , I ’ve used 18 taps to check over two e - mail service accounts . But there are three left to go , so add another 18 taps to hold in those three . That reach a sum of 36 taps ( perhaps as “ few ” as 33 if I had n’t left Mail reading a content on my last role ) to check the raw messages in five e - mail accounts . Any means you count it , that ’s a whole lot of tapping !
Much of this could be annul if the iPhone boast OS X Mail ’s integrated Inbox view . By add a new “ All Inboxes ” boxful on the list of bill , for illustration , I would be capable to check all of my e - ring armor with only about 10 taps ( only numerate the pat required to afford the first Modern subject matter , of form , not all of them ) .
There are other dab - heavy expression of the iPhone ’s interface : deleting a contact require four taps ( after the two or three tap required to get to your impinging list ) . Dialing someone ’s phone identification number requires at best two tap , but perhaps four or five , depending on where you were and where the routine you wish to call can be found . This is n’t needs bad , of course — it ’s a verbatim result of the iPhone ’s lack of strong-arm button . On my Treo , there are six hardware buttons that can be used regardless of which computer program you ’re running . On the iPhone , there ’s just one ( the Home button ) . While this maintain the design clean and reduces the learning curve , it by all odds run to ( tap … tap … tap … ) more work to action certain thing .
Now excuse me ( tap … water tap … tap … ) while I go off to browse the Web for a moment .
