Yahoo! Mail Experience on iPad Earns Praise

Yahoo! Mail has come up with a new mail experience on Apple’s iPad that is quickly getting praise.

TMC’s CEO, Rich Tehrani (News - Alert), says in a blog post that it’s time for “Hats off to Yahoo for developing an awesome, must try mail experience on the iPad.”

“Yahoo Mail on the iPad is a beautiful thing and is a rare situation where an application is better than what Apple (News - Alert) itself has created,” Tehrani said in his commentary.

In a recent blog post, “Yahoo! ‘Delivers’ Mail Optimized for iPad,” Lee Parry, product manager, Yahoo! Mail, says that on the heels of its recently launched HTML5 mobile web mail for iPhone (News - Alert), the company is “keeping all the things users love about our new mobile Web mail, while optimizing it for the gorgeous large screen of the iPad.”

Yahoo says the iPad experience is:

·      Faster and more reliable: If you're offline, Yahoo! Mail uses local caching capabilities to help you access and search your messages even without an internet connection.

·      Smart: You can find and organize your messages using Full Search, personal folders and Smart Folders with messages from your most important contacts and optimized views for photos and file attachments.

·      Feature Rich: View rich photo attachments in their full form, or as previews directly in the inbox view. Also includes a dual-pane view to make reading and organizing a breeze.

 “Who would have thought Yahoo would beat them at their own game?” Tehrani said in a reference to Apple. “The bar has been raised and we can expect Apple to come out swinging with similar features in a new update which they will tout in their commercials as if they were first.”

“To make matters more interesting it is not only much better than a native application – in this case the Mail app which comes with the iPad but it is based on HTML5 and as a browser-based app it is supposed to be at a disadvantage,” he added.