Hotmail for Android
I am very happy when I hear Microsoft plan to release Hotmail for Android. And now I use it to manage my multi Hotmail’s account. This is a good step from Microsoft to release their Android apps to help their Hotmail’s user like me. This is like a Microsoft’s strategy as part of its effort to re-energize the email client.
Hotmail for Android is available for free download from Android Market. I just surprise when I get the push email service from Hotmail with supported by SEVEN. Previously, I use K9-Mail to manage my multi Hotmail’s account but I’m not happy with it. Hotmail for Android is the right answer for me to replace K9-Mail as native Android application to handle my Hotmail’s inbox.
Hotmail for Android – Feature
What are the key features on Hotmail for Android? Some features have been provided by Microsoft to ensure the Hotmail’s user easy access to Hotmail so we never miss an email, these features are:
- Push email, It is the important feature for me and perhaps for most of Hotmail’s user, this feature helps us to get messages on our phone without delay with push notifications.
- Calendar and Contacts Synchronization, a feature that helps us to sync our agenda based on calendar and contacts.
- View Hotmail’s folder including sub folder, this a good feature that helps us to get the messages based on our filter and the folder looks like on desktop version.
- Multiple Hotmail accounts, we can manage not only one Hotmail account, this is a nice feature for anyone who has multi hotmail accounts like me.
- Send, receive and view attachments including send pictures from phone using Hotmail.
Unfortunately the Hotmail for Android is not available for all Android OS versions since it requires Android 2.1 as the minimum requirement before Android phone could install the app. But it is not a big deal because the newest Android phone which available now in Market mostly using Android 2.2 Froyo with supported to upgrade to Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
Recently I use Hotmail app in my Xperia Android phone since its first release. The Hotmail for Android performance is quite okay but I still need more time to review this app since not many emails come to my Inbox. But it’s promising and once again I love it.
Download Hotmail for Android
We can download Hotmail for Android directly from Android Market for free. But we also have the apk file of Hotmail for Android for anyone who has no access to the Market due to some reasons from download link. However some features need to added to the app such as sync notification when we read/delete an email using the web it will not clear the notification on the phone. We have to manually clear them.
Perhaps a nice widget likes widget with unread mail count on it needs to release on next update to Hotmail for Android.
