But I’d like to have them on my Android phone as well, even when I don’t store company data on the device. People lose their phones. All the time. And there’s private data on there that should better be kept secret.

I feel uncomfortable carrying around a device which has more than 300 contact data sets, lots of personal email and also knows password to some of my accounts on the web. And I’d gladly buy an Android device that properly protects my data.

Oh, and no, all the apps available in the market that offer password stores or document encryption are just not the way to do it!

The Samsung mail client

Samsung has put their own email client with IMAP/POP3 support on the phone. And I’ve never used an email client with so many fundamental flaws:

• it considers all mail it has not read itself to be unread on IMAP. (Yes, IMAP!)
• you cannot copy text from received emails (!!!)
• it does not support threading
• folders are shown as an horizontal bar at the top. This is not helpful if you have 50+ folders
  • oh, and you cannot move/copy mails to folders anyway
• the “new mail” notification does not show subjects, only number of mails received
• responding to mail does a fullquote and puts the text to the top; and no, there’s no way to do it another way

And I forgot, it looks really ugly.

Fortunately there’s K9Mail on the Android market that does most of these things better. But for an out-of-the-box experience (how many people exactly will be spending time looking for alternative clients) this is really bad. You can do better, Samsung.

Samsung's Mail app

Gleiches Muster wie immer, nur richtig plump. Versprechen, dass es ja “nur um Kinderpornographie” geht und dann Grundlagen schaffen, die eben nicht auf ebendies beschränkt sind.

Hat jemand eine Erklärung für diese Änderung, die nicht auf ein umfassendes Zensurvorhaben hinausläuft?