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By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com Guide to Email since 1997

How to Make iPhone Mail Load Faster

Thursday July 2, 2009
How long is a second?
1046 wing flaps for the no-see-um.
With 62,760 beats per minute, the no-see-um has one of the animal world's fastest flapping speeds. Its stings are painful, but the tiny midge can barely be seen.
You, too, flutter, of course, swinging your iPhone from left to right and through every country the sun visits in a day. To make your iPhone Mail one of the fastest all the way, you can leave the motion sensors at rest, though:
›› Apple calls what's spinning in iPhone's info bar an "asynchronous progress indicator". Don't want to see it much when checking mail? Here's how to have iPhone Mail download only the bare minimum — and display it fast upon launch.

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