Email Apps and Spam

Choosing an Email App

As with text messaging, there are several different email apps you can use on your smartphone. Most carriers ship their phones with two primary email apps—Email and Gmail. The Email app can be configured to work with a variety of email accounts, including both web-based and traditional IMAP and POP3 accounts. The Gmail app is designed to work exclusively with Google’s popular web-based email service. Depending on what types of email accounts you have, you might find yourself working with both of these apps.

There are other email apps available, too, in the Google Play Store. These are all good apps, but don’t really offer much more in the way of functionality than what you find with the preinstalled ...

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