See how emails display on mobile devices
Latest posts | Feed | By Mark Brownlow on June 26, 2007
I read this post from eROI, which included a video demonstrating that the text versions of emails are not automatically displayed on your wireless email device.A picture (a moving one) really is worth a thousand words, showing just how much messy code the recipient needs to scroll past to get to the actual email content.
I wondered if anyone else had thought to video the mobile email experience. So the rest of us can understand how inboxes, previews and emails look on these things.
An hour or two on YouTube later...voila:
Nokia 770
Another Nokia 770
Mobile Gmail on a cell phone
More mobile Gmail
iPhone (at Apple)
Samsung D600E
Motorola Q
LG enV
Misc cell phone
Blackberry Pearl
Blackberry 8700g
In fact, search for a device name plus review or demo and you'll find dozens more!
More on rendering issues | Tags: mobile email, wireless email, email design
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2 Comments:
We recently added a 1x1 empty pixel as the very first thing in any of our HTML email messages. I then add 2-3 sentences of copy to the alt tag of that pixel. When you send the email to Outlook and use Autopreview, the very first thing you see is then the alt text of that pixel. (I picked this tip up from Campaign Monitor last year.)
I recently tested an email to a Blackberry and was pleased to see that in the Blackberry the first thing you see is also that alt text. It doesn't make up for the HTML looking like a mess, but at least the first 2-3 lines are the crux of the email, and if the recipient is interested, they'll save it and open it in a normal mail client later (I hope!).
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27 June, 2007
Thanks Cathy - interesting idea!
By 
Mark Brownlow - Email Marketing Reports, on
28 June, 2007
