How to create an Email account on any Android smartphone
Email is one of the amazing tools available on the Internet, Email has made post offices,telegrams a thing of the past, with email you can receive messages from any part of the world with ease, buy E books online, order for an online service, sign up for any program and get subscribed notifications as when due, it’s disheartening that most of our teenagers/youths still don’t own an email or know how to sign up for one, some have no option other than to hire the services of a computer operator when the need of email address arise
For that reason, We are to treat intensively on how to own/sign up for an email using our Android smartphone or a web browser,
first thing first
What is an Email?
Electronic Mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages (“mail”) between people using electronic devices. Email first entered limited use in the 1960s and by the mid-1970s had taken the form now recognized as email. Email operates across computer networks, which today is primarily the Internet, if you can remember the old conventional boxes usually situated in front of every house hold in the city with the house address mostly written on the boxes, these boxes are where mails or packages of any kind are received, an E Mail is same as that mail box but this time it’s electronically stored online, instead of the old boxes, an email can receive messages from anyone from any part of the world, email comes in handy during registration for any services or program online since most of the procedures is email address verification, which without the registration process will not be completed, email has made communication easier for businesses and their clients, Email services are free of charge, you don’t need to pay any monthly/annul fees,
To own an email you have to sign up with an email provider, the popular and most convenient email providers we are to learn about in this tutorial includes
- Gmail
- Yahoo mail
- And Hotmail
- Google account (Gmail) :Gmail is a mailing platform that is provided by Google, Gmail has become a popular emailing platform because of its simplicity, fast sign up and since Google owns Android OS every android user ought to own a Gmail account(Google account) to be able to download/ update apps from the google app store(play store)
- Yahoo mail: Yahoo mail is one of the oldest mailing providers owned by Yahoo Inc, yahoo mail is a pioneer in email services
- Hotmail: Hotmail is another good and reputable mailing provider, that is mostly used by business entities.
How to sign up for an email account
Choose which provider is most convenient for you, I personally recommend Gmail, my reason being that one can sign up on any Android smartphone with ease.
Follow the screenshot below to sign up for a Google account using your android smartphone
- Go to your phone settings
- Click on Accounts
- Click on add account
- Select Google in the options shown below
You might be required to confirm your password or lock pattern
- click on create new account options
- Add your names and other detail as specified in the signup page
- Choose a username i.e your email address eg [email protected]
- Click next to secure your account with a password, always use of strong passwords, a combination of numbers and alphabet is ok, but if you can’t retrieve your password easily then use your mobile phone number instead
- Done with the signup process, your android will automatically sign in to the Google account you just created, you can now download/update apps from play store,
To login and view mails messages on your Gmail account
Visit gmail.com, log in with your username and password.
You can alternatively create your Gmail account from your phone browsers be it chrome, Firefox or Opera mini
Follow the instructions below
Visit www.gmail.com from your browser
1.click on “create account”
2.Add your names, phone, and other details
3.Done with signing up? Log in to your account with your username and password to send and view email messages on your account
Note down your email address, in this example we made use of [email protected], your email address or username is the address you are to use during any online registration
SIGN UP WITH YAHOO MAIL ACCOUNT
To create an email account on Yahoo
You can do so using your browsers, Chrome, Firefox etc
1.Visit www.yahoomail.com
2. Click on Sign up
3. Add your names and other details plus your desired email address
4.click on continue,
5. done? then visit www.yahoomail.com from your browser to sign in to your yahoo mail account using your newly registered username and password.
following the simple steps above am quit sure that you can now conveniently open an email account and run them swiftly
Having issues with any of the procedures above do not hesitate to drop your comment
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