Adam Lein thinks so but I’m not sure I agree. In Win Mo 6, he points out that it takes five steps to create a New e-mail message, while in the prior OS, it only took three. There’s an account setting that actually removes one of the five steps bringing it down to four; it was one of the first things I did when I upgraded my T-Mobile Dash.
When all is said and done however, I don’t think this is really a ‘bug’ as Adam suggests. The main cause for the change of new e-mail generation has to do with the left softkey. In WM 5, it used to be ‘New" so you could quickly create a new message. This left softkey was changed to ‘Delete’ in Windows Mobile 6, which makes it now very quick to delete a message. My thought: Microsoft realizes that most people delete e-mail more on their handheld than create new e-mail messages. I don’t see this as a bug, but more as a compromise or change that reflects how most users actually use their device. Give Adam’s well thought out article a read and then tell us what you think.
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