Kyle LeBoeuf

Today, Apple let me into the MobileMe Mail beta, so I spent a little bit of time with it and now I have a few impressions.

First, let me say this: the interface is absolutely beautiful. Obviously inspired by the Mail interface on the iPad, the new Mail interface takes advantage of widescreen resolutions and displays everything in a neat, 3 column view. On the far left column is are your usual mail sections like Inbox, Sent, etc. In the center column is your mail, and it looks just like the Mail app on the iPhone and iPad. On the far right is a preview section for the email, again very similar to the (widescreen) email interface on the iPad.

In my experience so far, it’s very clean and its very snappy, loading most of my email with no problems and not really noticing any display issues with the email either.

I did notice some additional perks that make using the interface a little more pleasurable of an experience. For starts, email sent to an alias on your account now shows the account in bright green text next to the sender’s name, so you have an obvious visual indicator of which email was sent to what address. This is great for me, because I often find myself replying to email using the wrong alias/address.

Overall I love the iPhone OS inspired design and features, plus a few perks here and there that round out the package into a solid update and worthy successor for MobileMe Mail.

I wonder if they will roll out some of these changes Mail on the Mac?