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Geronimo For Apple Watch Reimagines Wearable Email

Geronimo For Apple Watch Reimagines Wearable Email

August 20, 2015

Lori Gil, Wareable:

A new app is hitting the App Store next week that promises to change the way we deal with emails on Apple Watch.

While there are already a few decent email apps for the wrist, like TL;DR or Outlook, there hasn’t been a lot invested into creating unique and useful versions for Apple Watch. Jumpin Labs, which includes ex-Google, Apple and Path devs, has been working on a new way of emailing for the past two years and has finally completed Geronimo, which the company claims is a radically new email experience. …

From the images provided, it also appears that Geronimo will have an interesting aesthetic. Images and attachments work well and whereas most Apple Watch mail apps have a darker theme, this design takes the opposite approach with a white theme.

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Meh.

Geronimo, while it looks neat enough, doesn’t really do much — at least as advertised — to differentiate itself from the slew of other third-party email apps already available for Apple Watch. While it’s true that Apple’s native email client won’t let users compose or search emails, there are others out there that will, so Geronimo is not unique in that respect. Its most (only?) novel feature is something the developer is calling the “human-only filter,” which allows only real, human-composed emails through to your wrist, saving the auto-generated ads and flyers and spam for management on your iPhone.

Unfortunately, nothing Geronimo does can combat or alleviate the fact that Apple Watch, as a text communication device, is only really useful in one direction. Without reimagined (i.e. non-voice) text-entry, this will always be the case, and composition at the wrist will remain a futile, frustrating gimmick.

[Images via Wareable]