Years later, in 2017, he got his true start in tech journalism working for a small Google-focused site called Pixel Spot. He first began writing online for the short-lived portal of Spanish-language gaming forum Emudesc in 2013. The company hasn't shared a timeline for when this new mobile app will be released, but we may hope to see an alpha yet in the coming months.Īrol is a tech journalist and contributor at Android Police. No doubt, Mozilla has plenty of work to do if it is to overcome Thunderbird's perception as a stagnant platform, but who knows?

It's promising news for those folks who want to use a reliable FOSS email client on their smartphone and, if executed right, could help Thunderbird jump back into being rated with alternative email services like Spark or K-9. The thread also mentions the possibility of releasing the future mobile app as a standalone APK distributed outside of the Play Store and maybe even the popular open-source app marketplace F-Droid. The first one is fixing the software's user interface and overall experience - and he has a point, since Thunderbird looks like it could be a time warp portal straight back to 2003.

Ryan Lee Sipes, product manager for Mozilla Thunderbird, officially confirmed on Twitter that a mobile app is in the works (via Caschys Blog), though in his words, the app is his number two priority.

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