The official Outlook.com Android app has been released
Outlook.com has been launched as an update to Hotmail, Microsoft's popular email service. Both sites and services run in parallel for the time being, but chatter indicates that Hotmail will eventually be closed and users migrated to Outlook.
For now though, both Hotmail and Outlook are accessible with users having to decide which service they want to sign in and use.
Microsoft today has released the official Outlook.com application for Android which provides direct access to the Outlook email account on Android devices. Setup is a breeze and should not take long: all you need to enter is your Outlook email address and password, and accept a few pages of legalese before you can start browsing your account's inbox or start sending out emails to contacts.
The following key functionality is made available by the Outlook.com app:
- Email push notifications support
- Optional synchronization with the Android calendar and contacts
- Sending, receiving and viewing attachments
- Support for multiple Outlook.com accounts
The application looks very similar to the company's Hotmail application for Android, with layout and functionality being nearly identical.
Much of the functionality that the application provides is accessible via the menu button of the Android phone. To compose an email, you have to go to the All Emails or account tab at the top, tap on the menu button to display a bottom bar menu with the compose option.
To switch folders, you have to go to the account tab and select a different folder from the list of available ones.
One of the biggest complaints right now is that you can't mark emails as spam using the application. You only get options to delete in the options once you have selected one or multiple emails. Outlook.com also suffers from the 30-day limit that the Hotmail application has in regards to emails that can be retrieved.
What's kinda puzzling is that Microsoft states that the application is compatible with Android versions 2.1 to 2.3.3 and 4.0 to 4.1. This leaves out all versions in between for unknown reasons.
To be honest, even the default email application that ships with the Android phone may be better suited right now to manage your Outlook.com account on the phone. Have you tried the application yet? If so, what is your take on it?
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Uhh, this has already been possible – I am not sure how but remember my brother telling me about it. I’m not a whatsapp user so not sure of the specifics, but something about sending the image as a file and somehow bypassing the default compression settings that are applied to inbound photos.
He has also used this to share movies to whatsapp groups, and files 1Gb+.
Like I said, I never used whatsapp, but I know 100% this isn’t a “brand new feature”, my brother literally showed me him doing it, like… 5 months ago?
Martin, what happened to those: 12 Comments (https://www.ghacks.net/chatgpt-gets-schooled-by-princeton-university/#comments). Is there a specific justifiable reason why they were deleted?
Hmm, it looks like the gHacks website database is faulty, and not populating threads with their relevant cosponsoring posts.
The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk that it’s about to be deleted from my ‘daily reads’.
It’s really like “Press Release as re-written by some d*ck for clicks…poorly.” And the subjects are laughable. Can’t wait for “How to search for files on Windows”.
> The page on ghacks this is on represents the best of why it has become so worthless, fill of click-bait junk…
Sadly, I have to agree.
Only Martin and Ashwin are worth subscribing to.
Especially Emre Çitak and Shaun are the worst ones.
If ghacks.net intended “Clickbait”, it would mark the end of Ghacks Technology News.
Ghacks doesn’t need crappy clickbaits. Clearly separate articles from newer authors (perhaps AIs and external sales person or external advertising man) as just “Advertisements”!
We, the subscribers of Ghacks, urge Martin to make a decision.
because nevermore wants to “monetize” on every aspect of human life…
“Threads” is like the Walmart of Social Media.
How hard can it be to clone a twitter version of that as well? They’re slow.
Yes, why not mention how large the HD files can be?
Why, not mention what version of WhatsApp is needed?
These omissions make the article feel so bare. If not complete.
Sorry posted on the wrong page.
such a long article for such a simple matter. Worthless article ! waste of time
I already do this by attaching them via the ‘Document’ option.
I don’t know what’s going on here at Ghacks but it’s obvious that something is broken, comments are being mixed whatever the article, I am unable to find some of my later posts neither. :S
Quoting the article,
“As users gain popularity, the value of their tokens may increase, allowing investors to reap rewards.”
Besides, beyond the thrill and privacy risks or not, the point is to know how you gain popularity, be it on social sites as everywhere in life. Is it by being authentic, by remaining faithful to ourselves or is it to have this particular skill which is to understand what a majority likes, just like politicians, those who’d deny to the maximum extent compatible with their ideological partnership, in order to grab as many of the voters they can?
I see the very concept of this Friend.tech as unhealthy, propagating what is already an increasing flaw : the quest for fame. I won’t be the only one to count himself out, definitely.
@John G. is right : my comment was posted on [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/23/what-is-friend-tech/] and it appears there but as well here at [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/08/how-to-follow-everyone-on-threads/]
This has been lasting for several days. Fix it or at least provide some explanations if you don’t mind.
> Google Chrome is following in Safari’s footsteps by introducing a new feature that allows users to move the Chrome address bar to the bottom of the screen, enhancing user accessibility and interaction.
Firefox did this long before Safari.
Basically they’ll do anything except fair royalties.