Kris Kumar
03-13-2007, 11:30 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.tekrati.com/research/News.asp?id=8593' target='_blank'>http://www.tekrati.com/research/News.asp?id=8593</a><br /><br /></div><i>"A recent Strategy Analytics benchmark study concludes that users find Windows Mobile Pocket Outlook to be the easiest mobile email client to configure for a POP3 email account. The Strategy Analytics Wireless Device Lab conducted end user benchmark tests with Windows Mobile Outlook, BlackBerry BIS, Nokia S60, and UIQ v3.0 email clients. The benchmark test results also point to the value of incorporating an on-device wizard. ... Pocket Outlook was the only client that 100% of participants could configure within the benchmark time allocation. Pocket Outlook also outperformed its competitors for speed and user satisfaction. "</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/Kris-2007mar-emailsetup.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> <br /><br />Strategy Analytics’ latest Wireless Device Laboratory <a href="http://www.strategyanalytics.net/default.aspx?mod=ReportAbstractViewer&a0=3301">user benchmarking study</a> [paid subscription required] found the Windows Mobile Outlook email client the easiest to configure. This is a good pat on the back for the folks at Microsoft who are behind the design of the email client. I like the wizard approach and definitely find the steps easy, but there is plenty of room for improvements. Like for example when I enter the email id as <i>[email protected],</i> why can't the wizard just guess the user name as <i>kris,</i> incoming server as <i>domain.com</i> and outgoing server as <i>domain.com.</i> I think that this way the user will be able to save precious keystrokes. Another example, why can't we configure the email accounts on the desktop using ActiveSync or better be able to transfer all the accounts configured on the desktop Outlook/Outlook Express. What do you think? Do you agree with the results of the user study?