Yahoo has launched a mail app that is set to change the way you use your mailbox. The app, available on Android and iOS platforms enables you to merge multiple accounts and most importantly get rid of passwords.
While the app is compatible with a host of other email providers, it does not support Gmail or enterprise Outlook accounts. Nonetheless, the app is an incredible tool for receiving emails on personal Outlook, Hotmail and Yahoo as well as any of your AOL account that is still operational.
The new mail app can connect to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. This, in essence, means that you can extract contact information of those in your social network whenever you want to send them an email. That’s not all; the app also allows you to extract photos from Flickr so that you can allocate each of your accounts an avatar.
The app also integrates gestures you’re familiar with, lets you swipe right mark for the messages you have read and left marks for the messages you want to delete. A long press enables you to select multiple messages.
The app simplifies the way you make attachments too. It allows you to drag photos and documents right into the message box as opposed to attaching them at the bottom of the box.
If you are the type of person who likes to send reminder emails to yourself, the app has got you sorted. You can now send a reminder email to yourself by holding the compose button down, nice and easy!
The app’s design is fresh and invigorating as well. Yahoo also sought to take the search function to a whole new level. The app comes with smart suggestions thus improving how you search the contact that you want to send a message.
According to Jeff Bonforte, Yahoo’s chief of communication products, the search function is remarkably smart that when you select the personal email from one of your contacts, it suggests personal emails for all the other people you may want to send a message.
With the Yahoo mail app is without doubt innovative, it does not incorporate LiveText at the moment. LiveText is the new video message app from Yahoo. Nevertheless, the app allows you access to Yahoo News. How well the new mail app will be embraced is yet to be seen even though the demo given by Yahoo at their San Francisco offices indicated that the app is likely to go over well.