Sync 4 steps Hotmail with your Android device – Android Planet

Normally, you use a Gmail account with your Android, but sometimes you already have a Hotmail account. Android Planet explains how this account syncs with your Android device.

There are so many reasons to consider a Gmail account if you have an Android device. However, many people use their first email account as primary account, which can be like Hotmail. The email service Microsoft used because the service email made popular.

Hotmail later changed to Live, and since 2012 is all together under Outlook, Microsoft’s current e-mail service.

You can find the steps to set the Hotmail Android sync. The synchronization is via Google’s email app Gmail, which offers since 2014 support for multiple email accounts.

However, following steps can be performed with other email services such as Outlook and Live (both also of Microsoft) or Yahoo

1. Go to Settings & gt.; Accounts & gt; Add Account .
2. Select Exchange (the account with a Gmail logo).
3. Then enter your e-mail address. You do not need to select manual settings, Gmail does the rest for you. In the next window you can enter the password.
4. Select then that your contacts, calendar appointments and emails from the email account to be synchronized. Let the synchronization frequency on automatically ‘stand if you want to receive new messages instantly. Want to sync once to retrieve only your contacts for example? Ask him then to ‘ manually .

Your contacts, calendar appointments and e-mails are synchronized with Gmail.