Productivity Apps for College

[Jdk0011]

Hi all,

I've just bought my first apple product, an iPhone 6s in space gray. I'm coming from a blackberry, so it's been an interesting transition thus far. I must say the blackberry is much more productive, out of the box, compared to iPhone. This has developed several questions that I would like to be answered, if possible.

First, is there a software similar to blackberry blend that the iPhone offers, natively (I do not have an apple computer)? Blend is a software that allows the user to access to email, messages, and the like, on your computer.

Second, is there an option to have emails be retrieved instantaneously? Continuously refreshing the mail is becoming tiresome.

Lastly, coming from a phone with a very limited App Store, does anyone recommend any apps for college students, on the iPhone?

Any advice would be great!

 

[Michael Goff]

A) Not that I'm aware of.
B) The default mail app supports fetch, yes.
C) Depends. What types of things are you planning on doing on the phone? Do you have Office 365? Word processors are there, as are spreadsheet and PP apps. They even come in "made by Apple" varieties.

 

[Mac-lover3]

There is no such app that does that.. But just interested could you tell the advantages of having it all in one? Secondly just look what you need in the App Store. Remember that Office for the iPhone is free to use (read and edit) also keep in mind that all iLife (Pages (=Word), Keynote (=Powerpoint) and Numbers (=Excel) are free). Also for college there are some great agenda apps available like Sunrise Calendar although it has been bought by Google another great one is Fantastical. Some other great apps are iTunes U, PCalc, iStudiez Pro,...

 

[Michael Goff]

There is no such app that does that.. But just interested could you tell the advantages of having it all in one? Secondly just look what you need in the App Store. Remember that Office for the iPhone is free to use (read and edit) also keep in mind that all iLife (Pages (=Word), Keynote (=Powerpoint) and Numbers (=Excel) are free). Also for college there are some great agenda apps available like Sunrise Calendar although it has been bought by Google another great one is Fantastical. Some other great apps are iTunes U, PCalc, iStudiez Pro,...

Forgot Office is free on iPhone.

 

[ielessar]

As for the email question, yes, just set the email settings to "Fetch" or "Push", and not "Manual"

Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data - and from there change the settings for each account.

And if you want to get notifications for those inboxes, go to Settings > Notifications > Mail - and change settings from there.


And enjoy your new iPhone.

 

[Jessica Lares]

The iCloud.com website will let you access your stuff providing you're using iCloud. I can't think of anything else that would work with the calendar and email. I took a look at Blend... iMazing will handle notes, messages, contacts, but not email or the calendar.

 

[Badrottie]

Mail app is not that great if you have multi email accounts. It didn't notify me until I open Mail app it does.