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Which landscape email is best?
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I've been looking at these apps as well. The one thing I didn't like was the fact that you have to switch back and forth between the app and mail to send or reply but it seems as if all of them require this. If anyone has tried multiple apps I'd also like to hear more reviews.
I've only actually used Wide Email, which I've been very happy with by and large. However there is an issue with it (which the developer is aware of and working on fixing) where some 'special' characters like the pound sign and the ampersand (&) will cause a truncation of the message when it transfers over into the mail app. Apparently Sideways doesn't have this problem, according to the developer.
But yeah- due to the way the API works they all have to compose things within the program and then transfer the text over to the Mail application, it's just a limitation of how Apple set things up.
There is a newer landscape keyboard app called Big Keyboard Email that also costs $0.99, but you can change the font size. If that's important to you, then try it out, as I believe that it's the only one that does it. I bought it, but I haven't tried it yet! 
Read about it here: http://appshopper.com/utilities/big-keyboard-email .
Read about it here: http://appshopper.com/utilities/big-keyboard-email .
Hey everybody, this is Pat, the developer of Wide Email.
I've bought all the other apps as well just to know what my competition is, and as far as I can tell, none of them have the ability to save drafts. If you quit the apps and reopen them later, your text will still be there, but you have to finish that email before you can start another one. Wide Email lets you save an email as a draft, start a fresh email and send it, then go back later to finish the first email. You can save an unlimited number of drafts.
A draft is saved automatically if you're interrupted while in the middle of typing an email ... for example, if you press the home button.
Wide Email also auto-saves every email you send from it. A "Sent Drafts" folder will appear in the drafts list, and you can see, resend, edit, and re-save any of these sent drafts. Mostly this is meant to protect you in case something goes wrong with sending the text from Mail .. your writing is never lost. But it can also serve as templates for quickly writing future emails.
Hope that helps. Here's the app store link for Wide Email, just fyi:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=289274499&mt=8
Cheers,
pat
Hi Pat! I just bought your Wide Email app a few days ago and have used it once or twice so far and it seems great! I selected yours because of the draft issue, because of the reviews here of those who had used it and to be honest, I liked your icon the best
Thanks for hanging around here!
Theres a new free app out called Firemail (http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=293620757&mt=8) - looks basic but will probably do the trick!
Pat,
Firemail has a cool feature that lets the user cut and paste using snippets and bookmarks. Big Keyboard Email lets you use different size fonts. That is useful for older people. I'm not sure if it lets you change the font size in the e-mail as well. Also, is there a way to use italics, underline, bold, and different font colrs and send it through the e-mail. All of these would be excellent implementations to enhance your app. Please implement these so that one app will perform the different tasks. Thank you!
Firemail has a cool feature that lets the user cut and paste using snippets and bookmarks. Big Keyboard Email lets you use different size fonts. That is useful for older people. I'm not sure if it lets you change the font size in the e-mail as well. Also, is there a way to use italics, underline, bold, and different font colrs and send it through the e-mail. All of these would be excellent implementations to enhance your app. Please implement these so that one app will perform the different tasks. Thank you!