This is just ridiculous. How can you release a hi-res phone focused on work and web-based activities and include such a terrible email implementation. Not only does it abuse pixel usage but it’s not using the touch-scrolling implementation found in almost every other delivered app. It has to be said that if you are a big email user, the Omnia Pro isn’t a good choice with the standard email app. Thank God that WM6.5 is coming soon.
3 email subject lines! Great use of 384,000 pixels Samsung!
#1 by Daniel on September 17th, 2009
Even worse, in many mails you ve to scroll right to read each line because the lines arent wrapped correctly
In my Omnia 2 I disabled the mail skin to recover the classic windows mail program…..
#2 by John on September 17th, 2009
Can you disable it??? OR it is the classic windows mail program that samsung hacked it??
#3 by chippy on September 18th, 2009
Yup Samsung hacked it into their TouchWiz overlay but there are options i’m sure. I just need to get my hacking hat on.
I’ll be away at the Intel Developers Forum (with http://www.midmoves.com) next week so it’s going to be a while before I get time to put that hat on. Any tips welcome in the meantime!
#4 by heman on September 17th, 2009
is not his faults…
#5 by CK on September 17th, 2009
Try ProfiMail. I have been using it on S60 and is just fab. Available for WM also.
#6 by peSHIr on October 15th, 2009
No hacking by Samsung: it’s just the default WM email client. It is just effected by the color scheme to give it a white on black feel, like the rest of TouchWiz.
Luckily this means the font thing is solvable, as WM internal applications (and possibly some third party ones, like Google Maps I think…) adhere to the system wide font size setting.
Check out my addition to http://peshir.blogspot.com/2009/09/omnia-qwerty-some-first-impressions.html for more information.
I now have 10 email messages in my inbox showing at once (potrait, 5 in landscape, instead of the above pictured 3). And you can too!