Apple iPhone Push Email is probably not for me

Looking at the iPhone email demonstration by good old Steve Jobs last night, I immediately recognised that whilst the client demonstrated looked funky, it was quite probably nigh on 100% unusable for me, for any true business user.

Any system that can only display 6 emails on screen at once is problematic for me. I get tons. Tons. My business is conducted by email, which is why I was so delighted when I finally got hold of Good Mobile Messaging for the Nokia E61.

Much like standard mobile phone inboxes, the Apple iPhone mail application looks very similar in terms of restrictive abilities. I don’t get three emails a day, I get hundreds — maybe 400 or so, depending on what’s going on. Your average mobile phone mail inbox can’t take that. Even if it’s memory can deal with it, the scrolling probably screws it all up. Whilst you can easily flick up and down the iPhone Apple Mail, I don’t know if that will do it for me.

Now, if Good develop a client for the iPhone, assuming of course, that this is possible, that might be rather useful.

Otherwise, I’m pretty confident that the iPhone email client is one that, alas, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to use. I’ll wait and see though.

For your standard 3 emails a day user, the iPhone and a Yahoo Push Email system looks like it could be rather wicked.