MailTones -Review

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On October 22, 2009

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MailTones -Review

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By: MailTones

Version #: 1.0

Date Released: 2009-09-30

Developer: Electric Pocket Limited

Price: 2.99

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So, if you’re like me, you receive many emails a day.  They come from various people – some are important, others not so much.  What if there was a way to indicate which emails were more important than others?  An App called Mailtones by Electric Pocket can help you do that and more.  So, let’s try this App out.
 
When you first open Mailtones, it prompts you to set up your mail to forward to their email address.  Once that is done, you can start to organize your mail.  You can set up different sounds to play when you receive an email.  You can choose from your contact list and pick from one of the twenty-five sounds applying each to your different email addresses.  Some of the sounds are bells, frogs, guitars and even ‘you have mail’.  Also you can be notified by subject matter and domain name.  Mailtones uses push notifications as well and you can even set up when you do not want to be disturbed (i.e., between the hours of 11 PM and 7 AM) and you won’t be notified.
 
Mailtones works with most mail programs except yahoo.  Also, your mail is only directed through the Mailtones server and not stored, so your mail is safe and secure.
 
After a short setup, I’ve been using Mailtones for a few days and can say it works perfectly.  It’s interesting to see people react when your iPhone shouts out ‘you have mail’.  Mailtones is $2.99 in the App store.  Give it a look.

Quick Take

Value:great

Would I Buy Again:yes

Learning Curve:easy

Who Is It For:everyone who gets mail

What I Like:being notified of my mail with audio

Final Statement:works great ,a useful and fun app

Read the Developer's Notes:
Tired of a boring beep when new email arrives? MailTones lets you pick a fresh new email tone, and set custom tones for different friends, subjects and email domains!Pick a new email tone from the 25 tones included in MailTones, from subtle professional tones to full-on horns and buzzers - you'll surely know when you've got mail!As well as playing new email tones, MailTones can pop up and alert on your iPhone, showing the sender and subject of your new email - so you know instantly whether you need to launch Mail and read the message, or if it can wait.One cool way to use MailTones is to set your default mail tone to silent, or ignore, and just set tones for people and subjects you want to know about - then when your iPhone beeps, you'll know its a mail message that matters.BENEFITS• Pick an exciting new email tone from the 25 we supply• Set custom tones for friends, subjects and domains• Get quick alerts of incoming messages• Cut distractions by setting unimportant email to silent or ignore• Simple set-up from GMail, MobileMe and any server which supports "forward a copy" forwarding of email• No need to share your email account details with us!HOW IT WORKSWhen you run MailTones, we'll give you a special email address @mailtones.net - forward a copy of your email to that address and any mail you receive will make your iPhone beep with your chosen tone. You can choose to copy all your email to mailtones.net, or use filters to just forward some. When mail arrives at our server, we send a Push message to your iPhone - causing it to beep, whistle, ring or buzz!

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