NewImageEarlier this year, popular OS X email client Sparrow arrived on the iPhone. It received much acclaim, but was criticized for lacking several seemingly critical email client features, including support for POP email accounts and push notifications.

Sparrow's developers have promised to add push notifications in a future update, but support for POP email accounts arrived in an update today, reports The Next Web.

The developers behind the popular Apple-focused email client Sparrow have today pushed a new update for its iPhone application, bringing its mobile client on par with the desktop version with the inclusion of full POP support.

What does this mean? Well, you will now be able to add Yahoo, Hotmail and any other private email accounts that you use on a daily basis, adding to the full Gmail and Google Apps support it already has.

Sparrow is available on the iPhone for $2.99 [Direct Link], with an iPad version coming soon.

Top Rated Comments

Kendall015 Avatar
172 months ago
Why are updates to Sparrow news?
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Carlanga Avatar
172 months ago
man Sparrow must be throwing wads of money to MR; it seems that every single update 'deserves' to be in page 2 stories... :rolleyes:
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Sith Vol Avatar
172 months ago
Still no push? Dangit
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
H2SO4 Avatar
172 months ago
I'd have this but I don't want two Mail apps on my phone, (or two very similar apps of any kind for that matter), unless I expressly needed them.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
QCassidy352 Avatar
172 months ago
Why would anyone use POP over imap?
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
foodog Avatar
172 months ago
Why are updates to Sparrow news?

Why are updates to Sparrow adding POP a better question. When they add push notification that is news.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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