Email on iPhone looks and works just like email on your computer. With support for popular email servers and providers — including MobileMe, Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo! Mail, Google Gmail, and AOL — and most industry-standard IMAP or POP mail systems, iPhone puts email in your pocket.
See it all.
iPhone supports rich HTML email, so images and photos appear alongside text. And you see email attachments in their original format, not as stripped-down versions. Rotate, zoom, and pan in more than a dozen standard file and image formats, including PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; and also view iWork attachments.
Send fast.
iPhone recognizes email addresses in different applications. If you run across an email address on a web page or a map listing, for example, just tap it and iPhone opens a new message with the address already in it.
Type smart.
The intelligent iPhone keyboard with built-in dictionary predicts and suggests words as you type, making it fast and easy to write email.
Get push email for enterprise.
Receive and respond to work email fast on iPhone. New support for Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync gives you push email that arrives automatically. Learn more
soucre: http://www.apply.com/iphone/
This is why I’m getting an iPhone – mail just like on my mac.
Question – will the iPhone receive email outside vodafone NZs 3G coverage?
No, you require a connection to the internet via 3G or Wi-Fi to receieve or send email.
Cheers Nick.
Although looks like the iPhone can indeed send/receive email on the slower 2G network (which covers 93% of NZ). Good to check though – have you heard otherwise?
Q: I’m going to get an iPhone mainly for out-of-office email – in a mac-familiar format. Trouble is, I’m in a patchy 3G area. Does anybody know if the iPhone will still receive email in 2G, or 2.5G areas?
A: It can receive email with EDGE (2G) Wi-Fi or 3G. There is no 2.5 generation cell service.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1592375&tstart=0
As far as my knowledge goes, Vodafone will (in due course of time) cover 97% of New Zealand with 3G coverage. (sorry dont have a soucre at this time, will dig up one later for you)
Appologies for that, I was pretty sure that to recieve full HTML comaptible emails you do require 3G, but I could be wrong. I currently am using my 2G phone to send/receive emails via Vodafone Mail but to be honest, it is a LOT faster and graphicaly a lot more appealing on 3G networks.
Good to here your getting the phone, i eveny you, just wish they offered it on prepay. I hope you are aware of the plans, if not click here Vodafone’s “Affordable”-plans”
When you say you get emails on your 2G (iPhone?) is it REALLY slow and graphically very basic?
its reasonable, not much of a hassle if your watching it TV and using it.