You can tell a lot about a person by the domain name attached to their email address. If it ends with @aol.com, chances are the poor soul using that email account doesn’t know the difference between the power button on their laptop and their asshole. If it’s yahoo.com, run away fast because it’s an old man posing as a teenage girl from Florida looking to hookup. All the cool kids use Google’s email service because it’s got threading, the search is incredible, and the storage space is practically unlimited. You’d think that because Gmail offers such a superior experience, everyone would be using it, right? Well, you’re wrong. More people use Microsoft’s Hotmail than any other service, not because it’s better, but because it was one of the first free email services out there, so folks are just used to it and don’t want to invest 10 minutes in switching.
Hotmail people sadly haven’t had a chance to enjoy a rich email client until this time last year when Microsoft launched Windows Phone … and we all know how awesome that OS is doing. Today Microsoft has launched a Hotmail app for Android, the fastest growing mobile platform on the market, and it brings you the same Hotmail experience that you know and love (seriously, love?) on your desktop to your smartphone.
There’s push email, calendar and contact syncing, attachment support (both sending and receiving), and it’ll even support multiple Hotmail accounts should your multiple personalities stuck in the 1990s need to have their communications fix. Grab it from the Android Market right now and let us know what you think in the comments section below. We’ll probably get a lot of mean spirited attacks at how we stereotype users based on which email provider they use, but we don’t like to think of it as stereotyping. It’s more a pursuit of efficiency when dealing with people via a medium—sentences strung together in things called paragraphs—that takes a lot of practice to master.