iOS 5 upgrade provides for a separate Hotmail option now!

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If you have updated your iOS devices with the recent upgrade to iOS 5, you will notice that the iOS 5 Mail now provides a separate Hotmail option. Among the so many new features provided in iOS 5, this new feature does not get the mention though. iOSHM12 600x443 iOS 5 upgrade provides for a separate Hotmail option now!

While one could always earlier use the Microsoft Exchange option to configure Hotmail related mails, this new option provides more clarity for a common Hotmail based mail user and is much easier to configure.

Configure Hotmail using iOS 5 Mail.

Let us see how to configure Hotmail.

Open Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Add Account.

Select Windows Live Hotmail and enter your Email ID and password. Provide a suitable description. Click Next.

It will verify the account and provide you with different categories – Mail, Contacts, Calendars, Reminders to be Synced or not. Save it.

That’s all!

This option incidentally, makes use of ActiveSync.

How to set up Hotmail on iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch using Active Sync  and How to set up Hotmail on iPad / iPhone / iPod Touch with POP3 may also interest you.

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