When your email client wants to be able to post as you on your Facebook wall, that's never a good thing.
Sparrow for iPhone
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#72I hate the swipe function on each cell. They should do it like how Tweetie used to.
Due to how they implemented the "panels" interface, swiping left-to-right on a row will pull the entire panel, so they had to implement it as only right-to-left to expose the actions. Kinda annoying, but it was a design decision forced on them by another design decision they made.
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#73I hate the swipe function on each cell. They should do it like how Tweetie used to.
Due to how they implemented the "panels" interface, swiping left-to-right on a row will pull the entire panel, so they had to implement it as only right-to-left to expose the actions. Kinda annoying, but it was a design decision forced on them by another design decision they made.
I meant they should remove the gradual swipe, and do a full swipe once the touch moves say 30px, instead of the cell moving along with my thumb.
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#74I've tried a number of email clients on the iPhone. In the end, i nearly always end up reverting back to the default app. There's something about the simplicity of it that always brings me back. That said, the other apps were always slower fetching mail from gmail which never helps. The only app that i have found to be very good is the gmail for iPhone app, but i only use it occasionally when the default app cant find an email address from my gmail address book. I should really use the gmail app more. Its mostly good enough.
Either way, whichever app i settle with in the end, its going to be the one that is the quickest in operation.
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the issue here is that it isn't really "push" they want to do. From what I can tell, they want to do is simply "run all the time so we can keep a connection open to receive new messages immediately". Which, to be fair, is pretty similar to what Apple does for their push notifications. However, allowing this would be a bad move. It'd mean that rather than once centralized connection that knows about the device…
Re push, I use an IMAP client called K-9 Mail on Android which has support for IMAP IDLE, which is basically the IMAP version of push. It keeps a constant connection open to my IMAP server and is immediately informed of any new mail. I have not noticed any reduction in battery performance since moving from 15 minute polls. I still get 1.5 to 2 days use out of it (HTC Desire Z). There's nothing inherently wrong with t…
sure, K-9 Mail works fine and implements everything correctly. But what happens when you have 4 or 5 apps that start polling constantly for updates because they don't want to deal with push notifications? I think Apple opening up this functionality would be a mistake that's open for abuse by other developers.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been a beta tester for the last month or so as well and I can definitely say this has replaced Mail.app for me. I feel relieved not seeing the red notification bubble growing. It's been freeing and I've got a much better way of managing my emails now. I hope Apple comes around on notifications though so this app will be even more popular(already broken the top 25 paid apps here in Canada.)
You easily remove that red dot badge, for all the apps you want – in Notification Center.
Absolutely, but my point is that not having the option for the notifications is fine by me now that I've realized I can live without. I should have made that clearer though.
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#77I'm using (and loving) it, until notifications are available then boxcar is a temporary solution, for me at least.
Would love to see a writeup on how to set up boxcar for as a replacement. Maybe Sparrow should implement their push notifications by just integrating with Boxcar and making it idiot proof.
http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/iphone/faq/articles/PushBoxcar...
And we'll have a blog post up at http://blog.boxcar.io here soon too. It's a bit easier than the above now, as you can just choose "Sparrow" from the list of Installed Clients to have it work.
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#78this is outstanding. Does anyone know if you can change the color of labels? they don't match my gmail label colors.
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#79I have several (breaking) issues with the paid desktop version of the Sparrow.app. I've posted the most bothersome one on their support forums about two weeks ago: no reply at all. Nothing. As a company that does epic UI, they should figure out that customer support is a form of user interface as well. I'm not ready to give them any more money at this point.
100% with you here - the latest version of Sparrow has some serious bugs that cause among other things, kernel panics. Previous versions have seen silently deleted messages, and other such nonsense. An email client should be, above all, reliable.
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#80Just quick question, since I lost a track of AppStore Developer's guides&rules: wasn't there a rule that an app that is copying functionality provided in iOS will not be approved? Was that changed? Aside of this email app, I dont see any music players for my iPod other than the native Apple app (I see plenty of opportunities for an upgrade).