Apple iPhone OS 4.0 unifies in-box, enables threads

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>> Steve Jobs: Now let's go to tent pole number 3. Tent pole number 3 is an enhanced mail. We've added a lot of great features to mail, a lot of suggestions and requests from our users that we've been able to get into this new mail and iPhone OS4. The first--unified inbox; customers have really wanted this so you can have multiple e-mail accounts, say a Mobile Me one, a Yahoo one and an Exchange one and all the incoming mail will be put into one inbox so you don't miss anything. And, we've made it so you can have more than one exchange account as well which has been another big request so all of that in the new mail client--unified inbox. Now, if you want to focus on just one account we've added fast inbox switching so with just a few taps you can move between one inbox or another if you just want to focus on one. In addition we've added the ability to organize by thread so you can follow e-mail conversations and discussions much easier. So as an example we'll look at the second message down and you'll see that it's got a 3 and a double chevron right there that says there's three messages inside there. And when we go in there you'll see the three messages, the most recent one on top that hasn't been read yet but you can follow that conversation all along by easily looking at the prior messages. They're all bundled in one place, organized by thread. And, open attachments; the ability to get an attachment by e-mail, tap on it and open it with an app from the Apps store. This is really great and in this case it's Omnigraffe assumed spelling and I can just tap it and it will open with the app. So some new features in mail; there are lots more but the biggest ones are the unified inbox with multiple exchange accounts; fast inbox switching; threaded messages; and you can open attachments with apps.

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