Reading Yahoo! mail from phone

Hi,

I often check my Yahoo! e-mail from my Sprint cell phone. However, when you
select a message, it downloads only a small fragment of the message
(literally less than a typical paragraph) which you read and then select
'Next...' to retrieve the next fragment. This works, but it's very
frustrating to spend about one second reading, 5 seconds waiting for the
next fragment, and repeating.

I don't suppose there's any way to configure things such that it downloads a
much larger chunk of the message at a time? I'd much rather wait 15-30
seconds to get all of a reasonable sized message on the screen at once
rather than having to keep clicking 'next.'

It also seems to me that the transfers are down in a very inefficient
manner -- about half of all the text on the screen are the various menu
options (previous message, next message, delete, etc.), and I expect all of
this is transferred every single time you hit 'next.

Thanks,
---Joel Kolstad

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> next fragment, and repeating.
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the web page provider. In this case, it's Yahoo Mail=20
that's decided to function that way.

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On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 13:39:34 GMT, O/Siris <0sīrīs@sprīntpcs.cōm>
wrote:

>In article <[email protected]>, Joel
>[email protected] says...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I often check my Yahoo! e-mail from my Sprint cell phone. However, when you
>> select a message, it downloads only a small fragment of the message
>> (literally less than a typical paragraph) which you read and then select
>> 'Next...' to retrieve the next fragment. This works, but it's very
>> frustrating to spend about one second reading, 5 seconds waiting for the
>> next fragment, and repeating.
>>
>> I don't suppose there's any way to configure things such that it downloads a
>> much larger chunk of the message at a time? I'd much rather wait 15-30
>> seconds to get all of a reasonable sized message on the screen at once
>> rather than having to keep clicking 'next.'
>>
>> It also seems to me that the transfers are down in a very inefficient
>> manner -- about half of all the text on the screen are the various menu
>> options (previous message, next message, delete, etc.), and I expect all of
>> this is transferred every single time you hit 'next.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ---Joel Kolstad
>
>The choice on how, exactly, a web page renders belongs to
>the web page provider. In this case, it's Yahoo Mail
>that's decided to function that way.

In addition to that, the Network is aware of the device type being
used to access web content, and can re-render that content to better
fit each device.