Note that these fetching features only work with Windows 8's «Store apps», so the full -
screen Mail app will fetch new email but your desktop email client won't.
Not exact matches
On the iPhone, an
app like
Mail is a series of single
screens, with the user constantly burrowing down and then backing up like a confused gopher.
Beyond the core
apps in the dock (
mail, Web, drawer), two of the five home
screens come with preinstalled
apps for YouTube, text messaging, news and weather widgets, and more.
The upcoming update includes: a fix for the Mobile Hotspot feature, improvements in Mobile Hotspot security, updated VZ Navigator, Visual Voice
Mail updates, V Cast
App preloaded on the phone, MotoCast installation steps simplified, improved stability of data connectivity after Airplane mode is disabled, improved data throughput performance in low - signal 4G environments, improved battery life when using Phone Book Access Profile Bluetooth headsets, successfully save multimedia ringtones, favorites contact widget updated, improved device stability when moving between home
screen panels, email icon updated, OTA updates show correct remaining download time and Commercial Mobile Alert Service feature has been added.
To the base of the
screen are the usual mainstay
apps, such as Google Play store, calendar, Google Maps and Google
Mail for quick access to those most - used products, it's all very Android and it all runs well.
The base of the
screen starts with four fixed
apps: iMessage,
Mail, Safari and Music.
Samsung REX 90 comes with TouchWiz UI with 7 home
screens, sporting a 3.5 - inch touchscreen with 480 X 320 pixels of resolution, equipped with a 3.2 megapixel rear - facing camera, Smart Dual SIM activity with Hot Swap capability, microSD card slot support for memory expansion up to 32 GB, micro USB 2.0, Bluetooth 3.0, 802.11 Wi - Fi b / g / n, Push
Mail with Active Sync, preinstalled Facebook, Twitter, Opera mini browser, myMovies, myMobileTV, myStation
apps, Facebook messenger, ChatOn messaging services, and a 1,000 mAh battery which provides a talk time of up to 15 hours.
BlackBerry Bridge is a patchwork solution to the PlayBook's lack of native
apps and pushes your BlackBerry smartphone's
mail, BBM, notes and calendar clients on the tablet's larger
screen but these need to be paired through Bluetooth and WiFi.
And so I really tend to minimize that and so I'm looking at my phone home
screen right now and it has the default calendar,
mail, notes, I'm trying to not be as gross so I'm using the Lose It
app so that's sitting there.
It also supports Simul - tasking, so you can look at your
mail on one
screen while another
app (such as the browser) is open on the other
screen.
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The
screen is large enough that some
apps, including Apple's
Mail and Messages and third - party
apps such as Tweetbot, provide a two - pane layout when you use the 8 Plus in landscape orientation — something even the iPhone X doesn't offer.
Fun fact: You can interact with any other item on
screen or the Home button itself while in Drag mode — for instance, you can start dragging a photo in the Photos
app, press the Home button, open the Files
app from the Home
screen, add a file to the selection from iCloud Drive, bring up the Dock, then drop your Photos and file attachments in a
Mail message.
Previously, only
Mail and Messages allowed for this — third party
apps had to build in their own similar features if you wanted to hide the notification content from the lock
screen.
Other improvements and fixes — Adds support for faster wireless charging on iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X with compatible third - party accessories — Introduces three new Live wallpapers for iPhone X — Improves video camera stabilization — Adds support in Podcasts to automatically advance to the next episode from the same show — Adds support in HealthKit for downhill snow sports distance as a data type — Fixes an issue that could cause
Mail to appear to be checking for new messages even when a download is complete — Fixes an issue that could cause cleared
Mail notifications from Exchange accounts to reappear — Improves stability in Calendar — Resolves an issue where Settings could open to a blank
screen — Fixes an issue that could prevent swiping to Today View or Camera from the Lock Screen — Addresses an issue that could prevent Music controls from displaying on the Lock Screen — Fixes an issue that could cause app icons to be arranged incorrectly on the Home Screen — Addresses an issue that could prevent users from deleting recent photos when iCloud storage is exceeded — Addresses an issue where Find My iPhone sometimes wouldn't display a map — Fixes an issue in Messages where the keyboard could overlap the most recent message — Fixes an issue in Calculator where typing numbers rapidly could lead to incorrect results — Addressed an issue where the keyboard could respond slowly — Adds support for real - time text (RTT) phone calls for the deaf and hard of hearing — Improves VoiceOver stability in Messages, Settings, App Store, and Music — Resolves an issue that prevented VoiceOver from announcing incoming Notific
screen — Fixes an issue that could prevent swiping to Today View or Camera from the Lock
Screen — Addresses an issue that could prevent Music controls from displaying on the Lock Screen — Fixes an issue that could cause app icons to be arranged incorrectly on the Home Screen — Addresses an issue that could prevent users from deleting recent photos when iCloud storage is exceeded — Addresses an issue where Find My iPhone sometimes wouldn't display a map — Fixes an issue in Messages where the keyboard could overlap the most recent message — Fixes an issue in Calculator where typing numbers rapidly could lead to incorrect results — Addressed an issue where the keyboard could respond slowly — Adds support for real - time text (RTT) phone calls for the deaf and hard of hearing — Improves VoiceOver stability in Messages, Settings, App Store, and Music — Resolves an issue that prevented VoiceOver from announcing incoming Notific
Screen — Addresses an issue that could prevent Music controls from displaying on the Lock
Screen — Fixes an issue that could cause app icons to be arranged incorrectly on the Home Screen — Addresses an issue that could prevent users from deleting recent photos when iCloud storage is exceeded — Addresses an issue where Find My iPhone sometimes wouldn't display a map — Fixes an issue in Messages where the keyboard could overlap the most recent message — Fixes an issue in Calculator where typing numbers rapidly could lead to incorrect results — Addressed an issue where the keyboard could respond slowly — Adds support for real - time text (RTT) phone calls for the deaf and hard of hearing — Improves VoiceOver stability in Messages, Settings, App Store, and Music — Resolves an issue that prevented VoiceOver from announcing incoming Notific
Screen — Fixes an issue that could cause
app icons to be arranged incorrectly on the Home Screen — Addresses an issue that could prevent users from deleting recent photos when iCloud storage is exceeded — Addresses an issue where Find My iPhone sometimes wouldn't display a map — Fixes an issue in Messages where the keyboard could overlap the most recent message — Fixes an issue in Calculator where typing numbers rapidly could lead to incorrect results — Addressed an issue where the keyboard could respond slowly — Adds support for real - time text (RTT) phone calls for the deaf and hard of hearing — Improves VoiceOver stability in Messages, Settings, App Store, and Music — Resolves an issue that prevented VoiceOver from announcing incoming Notificati
app icons to be arranged incorrectly on the Home
Screen — Addresses an issue that could prevent users from deleting recent photos when iCloud storage is exceeded — Addresses an issue where Find My iPhone sometimes wouldn't display a map — Fixes an issue in Messages where the keyboard could overlap the most recent message — Fixes an issue in Calculator where typing numbers rapidly could lead to incorrect results — Addressed an issue where the keyboard could respond slowly — Adds support for real - time text (RTT) phone calls for the deaf and hard of hearing — Improves VoiceOver stability in Messages, Settings, App Store, and Music — Resolves an issue that prevented VoiceOver from announcing incoming Notific
Screen — Addresses an issue that could prevent users from deleting recent photos when iCloud storage is exceeded — Addresses an issue where Find My iPhone sometimes wouldn't display a map — Fixes an issue in Messages where the keyboard could overlap the most recent message — Fixes an issue in Calculator where typing numbers rapidly could lead to incorrect results — Addressed an issue where the keyboard could respond slowly — Adds support for real - time text (RTT) phone calls for the deaf and hard of hearing — Improves VoiceOver stability in Messages, Settings,
App Store, and Music — Resolves an issue that prevented VoiceOver from announcing incoming Notificati
App Store, and Music — Resolves an issue that prevented VoiceOver from announcing incoming Notifications
According to Apple iOS 11, coming in September or October, introduces powerful new features for iPad, including: — a new customisable Dock that provides quick access to frequently used
apps and documents from any
screen; — improved multitasking, including a redesigned app switcher that brings Spaces to iOS, making it easier to move between apps or pairs of active apps, used in Split View and now Slide Over; — the new Files app that keeps everything in one place, whether files are stored locally, in iCloud Drive or across other providers like Box, Dropbox and more; — Multi-Touch Drag and Drop, which is available across the system to move text, photos and files from one app to another, anywhere on the screen; — a new document scanner in Notes, which lets users easily scan single or multi-page documents, removes shadows and uses powerful image filters to enhance readability; and — deeper integration with Apple Pencil, with support for inline drawing to write along text in Notes and Mail, Instant Markup to easily sign documents, annotate PDFs or draw on screenshots, and a new Instant Notes feature, which opens Notes from the Lock Screen by simply tapping Apple Pencil on the di
screen; — improved multitasking, including a redesigned
app switcher that brings Spaces to iOS, making it easier to move between
apps or pairs of active
apps, used in Split View and now Slide Over; — the new Files
app that keeps everything in one place, whether files are stored locally, in iCloud Drive or across other providers like Box, Dropbox and more; — Multi-Touch Drag and Drop, which is available across the system to move text, photos and files from one
app to another, anywhere on the
screen; — a new document scanner in Notes, which lets users easily scan single or multi-page documents, removes shadows and uses powerful image filters to enhance readability; and — deeper integration with Apple Pencil, with support for inline drawing to write along text in Notes and Mail, Instant Markup to easily sign documents, annotate PDFs or draw on screenshots, and a new Instant Notes feature, which opens Notes from the Lock Screen by simply tapping Apple Pencil on the di
screen; — a new document scanner in Notes, which lets users easily scan single or multi-page documents, removes shadows and uses powerful image filters to enhance readability; and — deeper integration with Apple Pencil, with support for inline drawing to write along text in Notes and
Mail, Instant Markup to easily sign documents, annotate PDFs or draw on screenshots, and a new Instant Notes feature, which opens Notes from the Lock
Screen by simply tapping Apple Pencil on the di
Screen by simply tapping Apple Pencil on the display.
Calendar, Internet Explorer,
Mail, Messaging, People, and even the system's PDF reader all reside on the modern Start
screen, where they're joined by auxiliary
apps such as Finance, News, Travel, Weather, and the aforementioned Music, and Video.
Alongside the usual
Mail, Maps, and Music tiles you know and love / loathe, a quadruplet of new
apps appear on the Windows Blue Start
screen: Alarms, Calculate, Sound Recorder, and Movie Moments.
And finally, lest you fear that providing feedback via the Windows Insider preview program is relative to shouting into the void, take note: During Build, Microsoft announced that it will be moving UI elements for its core Outlook
Mail and Calendar
apps back to the bottom of the
screen on Windows Phone.
Microsoft is migrating even more essential Windows functions to the modern UI, as well as implementing enhancements — such as a new split -
screen Snap feature, which cuts back on multitasking woes; improved touch support for
Mail; and the ability to sync documents with the modern SkyDrive
app — to nudge desktop devotees over to the Tiled side.
iOS 12 was due to see an intriguing home
screen redesign and tweaks to core
apps like
Mail, Camera and Photos, but that's said to have been shelved in favor of stability improvements.
The full -
screen modern
apps running in Windows 8 (for
mail and contacts and so on) always felt half - baked and rushed, but they'll be much more sophisticated and useful by the time Windows 10 rolls around.
Make sure you have the new Files
app or Photos
app as one of the
apps on
screen while multitasking and that you're composing a new email in
Mail, or new message in Messages.
A gentle double - tap of the home button will bring the top half of the
screen down to the bottom half, making
apps like Safari and
Mail much more friendly to your thumb.
Some windows pick their own size - opening an attachment from the
Mail app uses two thirds of the
screen for an image or half the
screen for a web page.
Your iPhone and iPad could get a redesigned home
screen and core
apps with a new look, including
Mail, Camera and Photos, suggests the report.
After about five minutes with no progress, I canceled the downloads and returned to my home
screen only to find that my
Mail, People (contacts) and Calendar
apps were no longer pinned.
Apple reportedly postponed various features including «a refresh of the home
screen and in - car user interfaces, improvements to core
apps like
mail and updates to the picture - taking, photo editing, and sharing experiences.»
Lion introduces more than 250 new features to the Mac, including Multi-Touch gestures and system - wide support for full
screen apps; Mission Control, an innovative view of everything running on your Mac; the Mac
App Store, the best place to find and explore great software; Launchpad, a new home for all your apps; and a completely redesigned Mail a
App Store, the best place to find and explore great software; Launchpad, a new home for all your
apps; and a completely redesigned
Mail appapp.
According to Axios, a redesigned home
screen, updates to bundled
apps like
Mail, and an improved picture - taking process have all been shifted to next year's update.
Across the board there are new and upgraded features: from a handy quick shortcut, to unread
mail in the Mail app, or being able to remove the Stocks or Tips apps from your home screen so you never see them ag
mail in the
Mail app, or being able to remove the Stocks or Tips apps from your home screen so you never see them ag
Mail app, or being able to remove the Stocks or Tips
apps from your home
screen so you never see them again.
Microsoft has pushed out an update to its Outlook
Mail and Calendar Windows 10
app that includes improvements to the calendar Live tile to the Start
screen.
These include improving the
screen reading experience with Narrator, the accessibility of experiences and
apps like Microsoft Edge,
Mail and the Start menu, as well as better tools and resources for developers to build more accessible
apps and experiences.
So, in an attempt to address those problems head on, it is pushing an upcoming home
screen refresh, as well as a refresh of the CarPlay in - car user interface, improvements to core
apps like
Mail, and photography upgrades to 2019.
Microsoft's video demonstration of the new design scheme offers a very brief glimpse of a number of its desktop
apps reimagined with Fluent Design, including the Windows 10 home
screen,
Mail client, calendar, clock, and pen support for Bing.
If it behaves like a bigger iPad then it could get features such as the rumored split
screen multitasking, message list view in the
Mail app in the landscape mode etc to take advantage of the bigger
screen.
Pushed into 2019 are a number of features including a refresh of the home
screen and in - car user interfaces, improvements to core
apps like
mail and updates to the picture - taking, photo editing and sharing experiences.