{ 2008 11 18 }

Of Upgrades & Attachments

So we just finished the big upgrade, apologies again for the outage.  The biggest feature outside of texting is that we now support almost all image types.

There has been a bit of confusion about attachments.  You can view images on your Peek.  Previously you could just view jpegs, but as of today you can view almost anything related to images (bmp, png, gif, etc).  As a note this does not require new software on the client, it should work “as is”.

Also, if you forward emails from your Peek we will re-attach any attachments.  So lets say you received an email with a ppt.  You can’t view the ppt on your Peek, but if you forward it the recipient will receive the attachment.

One of our next “to do’s” is supporting other attachments.  The idea we had is similar to a few of the suggestions you all gave.  For pdf/word we’d rip out the text and send it as an email, with any images as attachments.  For excel we were going to do a fixed width view and squeeze in as many columns as possible.  And then as you scroll down the email you’d either retrieve more horizontally or vertically depending on where more data exists.

Any thoughts on this approach?  Would it be useful, or should we just wait and put proper viewers on the device itself?  The excel approach is definitely the riskiest, we’ve debated holding out until we had a horizontal scroll.

A few other things you will notice from the upgrade:

1.  Formatting should look cleaner.  We’ve fixed some new line issues.

2.  Our email domain guessing has more improvements, we should be up to 80% accuracy (if not more)!

3.  The AOL experience should feel a wee bit faster.  We also are better handling read/unread for some older versions of AOL now.

There are two to three more upgrades coming in the next couple weeks and then we will be silent until the New Year.  Stay tuned!

-Dan

Posted by dan on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008, at 11:05 am, and filed under Uncategorized.

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