Happysin":2uyqb35o said:
What do you mean failure? They specifically designed email so it will notify you in every relevant way, except interrupting what you're doing. you can even have it ping at you letting you know a new mail came in. How is not interrupting you a bad thing? You still know it came in, you just don't have to stop what you're doing until you're ready.
Now there are Microsoft fans fighting for the Microsoft.
The question was never about "Do I get notification about email and how many of them there are?"
But the question was about "Do I find out from WHO and WHAT was subject of email what I just got"
So if you get a notification (sound, vibration, icon to lock screen or start screen) it doesn't help at all.
Why?
Task: User is example reading a news article. Waiting that other person would answer a email. And then email is received.
Question: How easily can user find out from WHO and WHAT ABOUT that email is?
In Android, user get a notification to bar showing from who and what is subject. Without doing ANYTHING. Only thing what user needs to do is to look the notification bar and it scrolls sender and subject informations.
If user have missed that, user can see sender and subject on lock screen (if phone was in pocket) or pull a notification bar down (one swipe) and see sender, subject and first words.
No need at all to switch away to launcher or open lock screen etc.
And user can see all information from one place, amount of emails, amount of SMS, amount of IM, amount of twitter messages, amount of facebook messages...... Even from who and what they are about. No need at all to open any application. No need to close current application. No need to unlock lock screen.
Example. This morning at glance I could see that I had three MMS with pictures from cousin, seven emails and from those three were news lists and four from different persons, two missed calls (I have calls muted until 8am) from two different person, two comment on facebook photos what were posted yesterday evening, I have two meeting today and one reminder, one friend sent few IM messages and that my hotspot was activated (automatically for coffee browsing on laptop).
And I did not need to open any app. I didn't need to switch home screens etc.
From emails, I could see easily from whom and what they were about. Without need to launch email application. I saw who was trying to call and who sent pictures trough MMS and who commented and what.
It is just ironic that when it comes to usability, multitasking and clear information, Windows Phone phone users need to scroll, launch applications, swap between applications and gather information by them self from all available data.
And more you use windows phone phones, more it comes cluttered, hard to use, slow and even laggy. It is a nice system for first time but after a while, it is a totally different than what was told.
If user has just few facebook friends, few SMS messages now and then, few emails and one calender and then use browser, it is good. Not perfect but good. But more and more you demand from that device to fill daily complex needs and tasks, it just hits the wall with "No can do" -limitation.
Example, Android can offer (depending screen size) 4x4 +5 or 5x5+5 (or between them like 4x5 +5) amount of space what to use for icons, folders and widgets.
If user has a eight game or eight bookmark, you don't need place all of them to one screen. You create a folder and you place that folder where you want. Now in 1x1 size there are groupped lots of data. You can even mix them if wanted. They can even be a emails or people or almost anything you want. Like one folder (what can include as many as needed space) can be made for specific school project or class. A another folder for all emails and messages and contact data from family members. And they are live as well....
And those would just take two 1x1 space, so you have left 4x4+5 -2 = 19. And when you can have nearly infinite amount of home screens and always have those 5 bottom (can be as well scrollable so you can have 5xY on there) you can just make ANYTHIGN you need. And still have everything groupped as well in app/widget drawer, accessible with search, filter or just scrolling.
Microsoft fans can say what ever they like, but Windows Phone does not get close to usability and flexibility what Android offers to the user.
You do not need to care about notification at all if you don't want. But it is just visible at glance and quickest access to email. Windows Phone just is slower and harder on that area as well than Android (or iOS). And quess what, with Android you can choose totally different notification systems or ways if you don't like what Android offers by default. 
