Upcoming Mailbox app for iPhone will have a waitlist due to huge demand

By looking at email as an “ancient” medium, Orchestra is just about to transform how we use email with a highly anticipated app.

You may have heard of Orchestra, Inc. They are the developers behind the highly rated “Orchestra To-do” app for the iPhone. The story behind that application grew from the company’s observations that many of us use our email as to-do lists. The problem is that most email interfaces, especially the ones on smartphones, are not very good at organizing or being to-do lists.

The company embarked on transforming the medium of email into something far more useful, and from the looks of what has been worked on, Mailbox is going to be a runaway success. It is a mobile-first email experience, rather than a desktop experience on a handset. When you see the video below, you will understand. Mailbox will be available for the iPhone and Gmail “soon.”

Response to this concept has been overwhelming, as a result, the company has set-up a reservation system so Orchestra can scale the rollout without “because this is email and email has to be reliable.” To achieve this, the reservation system Orchestra has set up is really simple, just provide your phone number and the company will text you a reservation number and you will be notified when you can begin using the Mailbox application.

Mailbox compresses data and is said to provide super-quick push notifications as well as make it easier to actually clear out all your email. You can reserve your space in line through the source link below. When was the last time your email inbox was empty?

sources: Orchestra via The Verge

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BBC: Mobile carriers won't be able to keep up with demand for data

Imagine having to try two or three times to connect to the internet from your smartphone, or having dropped calls occur three or four times as frquently as they now take place. These are some of the problems that smartphone owners might run into by 2016 according to the latest report by Deloitte and repeated by the BCC. Besides these problems, smartphone users will see their phone freeze more often and data speeds could drop under 1 Mbps for a fairly long period of time. Speeds that low make video streaming fairly impossible and could make using the internet in general pretty tough. The report says that demand for data will outdo supply over the next few years with major deterioration in user-experience in some metropolitan regions.

Apple iPhone, Android and Windows Phone users consume 35 times more data than users of typical phones according to the report, although we're not quite sure what handsets Deloitte considers "typical." By 2016, wireless traffic will grow by 50 times. This will lead to "rush hours" with congested mobile pipelines for smartphone users. Luckily, some governments saw this bottleneck coming and sold off spectrum to keep the data flowing. But some governments put restrictions on the spectrum they auctioned off, requiring that carriers use all or part of it to serve rural areas where getting a cellphone signal is hard to do. More efficient 4G networks will ease some of the pressure on the carriers. Besides that, there seems to be no immediate answer to the problems that carriers might face in the not too distant future.

source: Deloitte via   BBC via textually.org

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Nokia Lumia 920 sells out at Telstra, demand “beyond amazing”

While AT&T contends with slow fulfillment of customer orders for the Lumia 920, in the land down-under, Telstra exhausted its inventory for pre-orders in less than a day.

After facing some stern customer reactions on Twitter, Telstra admitted that demand was much higher than expected globally and that demand from its customers was “beyond amazing.” Telstra has also revealed that stock has been limited globally, which may mean that stocks could run thin if they have not done so already in other markets around the world.

Hopefully, these are signs of good times ahead for Nokia as well as Microsoft and the new Windows Phone 8 platform.  For the Telstra customers, Lumia 920 stock should be replenished by November 27th. If you have been thinking of picking up a Lumia 920, check out our review of this handsome and capable device and get your order in.

source: Telstra (Twitter)

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