androidhate@gmail.comOur reader Roger does real work and so people send attachments to his email. Sometimes he wants to save those attachments to his phone. When he had Windows Mobile this wasn’t a problem. Enter Android.
Working with attachments requires third party tools. Be careful which you use though, Roger’s file manager allowed you to delete the file extension leaving files unusable and inaccessible.
Occasionally, Roger even wants to send an attachment (for example a word processing document) but that functionality isn’t in the default email and Gmail apps. Luckily, according to Android Community user RoidRage, “there’s an app for that.” I can only hope that all basic usability problems are fixable with $3 investments. I may run out of screens though.
Digging further, attachments get quite the cold shoulder on Android:
- .Wav attachments won’t play (again solved by a $3 app)
- Forwarded emails are stripped of attachments (blackberry handles it better)
- Attachments of 1Mb won’t send
- Sometimes Android even botches the attachments it can send
