There is a checkbox in the “Read” section under the Settings option called “Open message only by double-click.” I had that checked.

Never-the-less, while FlexMail 4 really is comprehensive, “Menu> Actions> Mark> For Download” is just crazy! I need “Menu> Download Now”! Better yet, 1-touch download. That’s all - IMHO - FlexMail 4 needs.

Re. PI8: none better! For me, none in the same league.

Richard

That’s #1.

#2 - you cannot compare feature-less eye-candy apps like TouchFlo 3D or PointUI to an app like PI. One looks super pretty and makes for a great demo. The other actually does something and looks nice.

#3 - you especially cannot compare iPhone UIs to Windows Mobile. We are developing beautiful iPhone apps today and we can because the iPhone is designed to do that. Windows Mobile isn’t. I can make PI spin in 3D if you wish with large buttons for everything. But then what about the person who wants everything stylusy? So I have to design 3 separate UIs? PI already has something like that with the T12 large format keyboard for fast contact searches in 8.1 and the time picker and the touch mode in PI 8. We made many things “finger” friendly in 8.0 and more in 8.1. But we still can’t go *too* far because too many people want keyboard only usage.

#4 I do not understand how anyone could say that you have to struggle through PI and *especially* that the built in Calendar is readable. Month, Year, and Week views are completely unusable in the built in Calendar. Even with PI we have a “Pocket Outlook with Benefits” Role that makes PI work and act like Pocket Outlook with most of the extra menus, features, and so on turned off.

The problem we have is that we have some users that try the app and look at it for a few minutes which makes it hard for us to show off the fact that its customizable in an easy way. So you have user A who wants the simplest thing with just a bit more power. If you don’t show that to him immediately he complaints it too complex. Then you have user B who wants more power and if you show him a super simple UI he assumes it doesn’t do anything more than the built in apps so why bother? Neither looks deeper to see that an app like PI especially and to a lesser extent FlexMail can change pretty dramatically from super simple to complex.

And really, Outlook in WinMo 6.0 is a huge improvement over previous versions.

Doug

I strongly recommend ProfiMail from http://www.lonelycatgames.com.

It doesn’t integrate with the PIM, but the interface is great and its rendering of HTML and embedded links is better than anything I have used.

Richard

The user interface - ergo - the user experience is just not appropriate for the mobile environment. Mobile environemnts are visually compressed and one desires increased efficiency over a computer environment in the ease of making things happen - e.g.: the number of screen clicks it takes to download a message. Here Flexmail is weak. It takes multiple clicks/ taps to get a message downloaded. Opening a message is a two-tap thing, which is counter to the usual 1-tap idiom that is WinMob.

I really like the application’s power and integration with the PIM, but, as the iPhone proves, it’s all about the UI…and the UE. Flexmail just isn’t user friendly.

I tried the beta out for a month or so and really appreciated all the options, but there was just something missing in it for me. The same thing happened with the newest version of Pocket Informant. WebIS makes a seemingly solid product, but I think the UI isn’t quite there yet, especially in Flexmail. I think it’s still a pretty big transition from the older stylus world of WM and the sleeker and larger UIs of modern WM programs.

Doug