Mobile Mail - Gmail, Yahoo, AOL

Mobile Mail - Gmail, Yahoo, AOL - who is the best?

When it comes to using email on your cell phone browser, who has the best offering ?

I have been a heavy user for over a year now of mail on my phone. I use the browser to check mail often. For me, it is very important to get to new mail, reply, mark spam, delete and go on.

I have 3 email boxes - aol.com, sbc!yahoo and gmail. I must say that the wap version of aol mail is the best, with gmail close behind.

Aol and gmail are fast. You can navigate fast, get to new email, mark spam - all with one click. Yahoo is fast, but tasks such as managing are in secondary screens, so quick mail box clean up is not fast. This makes it more slow to use, less practical.

The feature that puts AOL ahead is quick reply. This is on all messages when reading them and saves a click to reply - important on mobile slower loading browsers. In addition it has "preset message replies" so you can quickly reply. This feels like thought in the design - putting features like reply on the same screen, with 0 clicks.

Feature Request to all 3 - Now only if I could spell check, that would save me even more!

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