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From: divoch on 11 Apr 2010 18:59
The subject is the question. Which of the existing or coming phones would
let me read e-mail attachments and which types?
thanks
divoch


From: Whiskers on 12 Apr 2010 10:17
On 2010-04-11, divoch <divoch(a)REMOVETHIShotmail.com> wrote:
> The subject is the question. Which of the existing or coming phones would
> let me read e-mail attachments and which types?
> thanks
> divoch

Any handset with a camera (are there any now that haven't got a camera?)
should be able to handle JPEG attachments (as long as the file isn't too
large for the memory on the device, or too expensive in terms of
bandwidth). Probably GIF, too. Plain text shouldn't be a problem.

You'll get better answers if you ask better questions - what sort of email
attachments do you want to read? Large or small? PDF? DjVu?
"Presentation"? Slide-show? Word-Processor? Audio? Movie?

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From: Denis McMahon on 12 Apr 2010 11:20
divoch wrote:

> The subject is the question. Which of the existing or coming phones would
> let me read e-mail attachments and which types?

Given that an attachment can be any type, I doubt that any phone will
enable you to read every possible attachment in a meaningful form.

However, I imagine that any phone with a browser should support at least
html to some extent and common image formats (gif, jpg, png, maybe svg).
Maybe tiff too.

Any phone with multimedia will probably support some forms of video and
audio content, such as wav, avi, mp3, mp4.

Not sure about ms office / open office format docs, generally I'd be
surprised if they could.

Flash animations / games and java applets, possibly. Also pdf documents
possibly.

Text formats - any browser should be able to display text, but they
might not be configured in a way that makes it possible.

Rgds

Denis McMahon
From: divoch on 12 Apr 2010 11:34

"Denis McMahon" <denis.m.f.mcmahon(a)googlemail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> divoch wrote:

> Not sure about ms office / open office format docs, generally I'd be
> surprised if they could.

These and .pdf documents are sent to me in attachments most frequently, so
I had them particularly in mind.
divoch

From: R. Mark Clayton on 13 Apr 2010 08:11

"divoch" <divoch(a)REMOVETHIShotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Denis McMahon" <denis.m.f.mcmahon(a)googlemail.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:4bc33a6d$0$15441$bed64819(a)gradwell.net...
>> divoch wrote:
>
>> Not sure about ms office / open office format docs, generally I'd be
>> surprised if they could.
>
> These and .pdf documents are sent to me in attachments most frequently,
> so I had them particularly in mind.
> divoch

Don't know which phones 3 offers.

Top end Nokia's can read various attachments and do well with PDF's.

OTOH Blackberries (not tried the 9700) only download a single low res page
image at a time of PDF's and can't display them native. They do have a
simple viewer / editor for word, excell and powepoint.


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