Mailbox - mail in Clear style

A few days ago, Orchestra has announced the launch of a new product, which was engaged in the development of the past year - mail client for the iPhone called Mailbox. In the design of the creators of the application tried to turn email into a task list unobtrusive. The result of their work has turned out really interesting and worthy of attention - beautiful interface in conjunction with convenient gestures, a kind of combination of Sparrow and Clear program.

Official release Mailbox has not taken place for the user (as indicated on the website, he is scheduled after the New Year holidays), but some journalists western technological blogosphere have access to the beta version of the program several more weeks ago. This article was written on impressions Ellis Hamburger, Editor edition of The Verge.

Many email clients have a set of buttons for deletion and archiving of email, but the creators Mailbox chosen radically different approach - the main actions carried out with the help of gestures. Swipe to the right and send a letter to the archive (symbolized by a green check mark), swipe left, and save for further reading (yellow clock icon). You can svaypnut right to delay and remove the letter the same gesture to the left side opens the list of folders to move. As a result, we have four different actions carried out with the help of gestures, so it takes a bit of time for training Mailbox Management. But it's worth it!

Understand the presented gestures and interface Mailbox will help the official promo video applications:

In addition to the arsenal of the elementary functions, which must have a mail client, Mailbox cmdlet application differs from its competitors in several key areas. First of all, this is a fantastic speed. Downloading and sending new messages takes just as long (if not less) than the built-in system program Mail. As recognized by the developer, this impressive result was achieved through a proprietary IMAP system optimization and data compression technologies, the creation of which took Orchestra more than a year.

Working with e-mail feel as if you are writing a message next to your favorite social network or Twitter. Each letter is displayed as a typical "cloud" chat. By default, Mailbox automatically hides the signature and displays the contents of the letter, but you can touch to the header and view the letter in full format including the fields To, From, Cc, and others.

If you can not answer for a letter at the moment and for some reason do not want keep it in the Inbox, archive or delete, you can use useful function "delay" in the Mailbox. Simply swipe your finger to the left and find the best option - later today, tonight, tomorrow, on the weekend, the following week, for a month, and in a certain predetermined day. At the appointed time, a letter will reappear in your inbox.

Finish this note I want to comment Gentry Underwood, CEO of Orchestra:

Email was invented desktop 30 years ago. In today's world, it is slow and awkward. All use e-mail on your phone, and almost everyone hates her. We thought that before us the great opportunity to make a small improvement in the lives of many people.

According to Ellis Hamburger, for it has become a favorite Mailbox email client on the iPhone, despite the small number of shortcomings and the lack of some features (built-in browser, «Starred» folder, avatars, support non-Gmail service and etc). The program is in an early stage of development and has a large area for improvement. Mailbox official release is scheduled for next year.