The official Outlook application arrives for Android
It's been a while but it's here. We refer to the application of Outlook.com, the renewed tool of email ofMicrosoft that has arrived to replace the classic Hotmail Despite the fact that this change has already been carried out a couple of months ago, those at Microsoft don't seem to have cared much for its users on the smartphones, who have had to keep their old Hotmail applications, or other unofficial ones, if they wanted to receive their emails on these devices.
Though that has changed. For a couple of days we already have an official application of Outlook.com, at except for terminals with operating system Android, which seems completely functional and useful to receive our emails instantly and at any time. However, we should not expect a completely new and attractive application, like the web version of this email. This is a very basic tool but it works without any problem.
To configure our Outlook.com or Hotmailwith this new application we only have to follow a couple of detailed steps in a guide in English that appears when starting the application for the first time.Here we only have to insert, in the corresponding spaces, our user account and password After that we are allowed to configure the name of the account, the size of the messages that will allow loading and the update time to check that there are new emails An essential point in this aspect is the possibility of selecting Push notifications , which alert us to new mail at the same time we receive it After that, the application is available for use .
As we can see, it is a tool with a not careful visual aspect At least compared to its predecessor, which suggests that it It is a tracing in which only the name and some icons have changed Thus, we have four tabs to manage all our messages.Home allows us to switch between different Outlook.com and Hotmail user accounts that we enter, avoiding having to use other applications if we have more than one. For its part, All Emails collects our inbox from all accounts, separating messages by day In this same tab we find the possibility of compose an email if we display the menu and press the option Compose
However, if we have different accounts, each of them will have a unique tab to separate the contents, being able to easily diversify the messages and tasks. Finally, Outlook.com has a search tab to help us find any mail that we have lost by entering several words that appeared in it.The negative point that we found in this application is its lack of translation into Spanish, something that It should arrive soon, although after the expected time simply to be able to use the application, it seems to us a long period
In short, a tool to manage our emails at least on Android devices We don't know yet if this email app will be coming to iPhone and iPad , and there are those who are still waiting for Hotmail The application Outlook.com It can now be downloaded via Google Play completely free
