The Email Wars

IBM to release Lotus Notes for iPhone - From The Email Standards Project

Now if they could just fix the desktop version so that it was not the biggest pain in the arse to render emails in correctly. I would really appreciate that one. It is one of the most challenging email clients to work in. No?

I had the “pleasure” of using Lotus notes at a prior company for years and as an internal email marketer and web marketer it was frustrating to make things work uniformly in the email client. I can only hope that this version works and does not cause us all mucho frustrations. And back to my earlier thoughts… can they just make the Lotus Notes desktop client more akin to other rendering engines? 

Our testing with different versions of Lotus Notes has turned up mixed results so far, so we were interested to see that an iPhone version of the widely used software was in the works.

IBM has announced Lotus Notes for the iPhone will be released in 2008. According to the official site, it will “combine with the flexibility and connectivity of the Apple iPhone. To be built on the time tested IBM Lotus Domino Web Access infrastructure, users will be able to quickly access email, calendars, and contacts through the rich Apple iPhone user experience.”

The existing Apple Mail application built in to the iPhone does a very good job of rendering HTML and CSS, so we’ll be watching with interest to see how this new version of Notes does. If you have access to it, we’d love to hear from you once the product is released.