How to create an email account on Android

When registering in various services, creating electronic wallets, or paying for a purchase in an online store, you cannot do without email. It is something like a virtual passport of the user. Many people need it for work and communication. Creating an email on a PC or laptop is easy for most people, but creating an email on a phone is also quite easy.

There are a huge number of email services, both free and paid. Let's look at how to create an email in several of the most popular free services.

Rambler mail

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Rambler mail

Developer: Rambler&Co

Price: Free

Rambler Internet portal stood at the origins of the Runet, and from 1996 to 2011 the Rambler was one of the leading in Russia. Now the Internet portal includes a large number of services, including the free email service of the same name.

How to create Rambler mail

To create an email mailbox on Rambler, follow these steps:

Step 1. Download the Rambler/mail from the Play Store and launch it.

Step 2. In the login form that opens, select the “Registration” option.

Step 3. The new user registration field will open. Enter the data required by the service: login and password for the mailbox you are creating, security question and answer.

Step 4. Enter the characters from the image.

Step 5. Enter your first and last name, gender and date of birth. The system also asks you to indicate your locality, but you can skip this item.

Step 6. Click on the “Complete registration” button. the Rambler email creation process will be completed.

What mail can you use on an Android phone?

We will describe a universal solution to the question of how to create an email on an Android phone. The algorithm described below can be applied regardless of the brand of phone you use. Differences can only be in the interface and control of the device.

We will discuss in more detail the creation of Google mail, as well as the following services:

• Yandex,
• Mail,
• Yahoo,
• Outlook
• Rambler.

The implementation of what is described below will not require you to spend any money. Everyone can choose a service for creating a mailbox according to their own taste. Please remember that if you plan to use email to register on foreign resources, you will need an address with a .com domain name.

Almost every email service has a mobile application designed to make viewing emails on a smartphone convenient.

How to Create a Google Email on Your Phone

In any case, we should start by registering an account with Google, since we will be using a device running the proprietary Android operating system. It is through the data specified at this stage that we will be able to use the Play Market to download various additional applications.

To create a main email if registration was not completed immediately after purchasing the smartphone, we use the following algorithm:

• We go to the Play Market through the menu or desktop.
• On the main screen, choose between authorization and creating a new account.
• Let's move on to creating a new account.
• To continue, please provide your personal information.

You can enter information in English and Russian. In the window that appears, we have to indicate our gender and enter our date of birth. Next we name the username. With its help, in the future we will be able to enter the application store and mailbox. Specify a strong password. Next, enter it again to confirm.

In the next step, the system will ask you to enter your phone number, but you can skip this step. We study the license agreement. We reach its completion, use the “I Accept” option. At the final stage of registration, click “Next”. All that remains is to check the correctness of the previously entered information. As a result, we get access to gmail.com mail and the company's application store.

Working with Google mail on a smartphone is much easier through a proprietary application. Smartphones often have it by default. We go to the application and see a welcome letter. You can understand the functions quite quickly thanks to the user-friendly interface. The application is suitable for different smartphone models and works stably.

Create a Yandex email account

To create an email account on Yandex, go to the company’s official website. Next, we have to download the official application and follow the algorithm described below.

• We start the search and open the corresponding application in the found ones.
• We use the “Install” function.
• When the installation is complete, click “Open”.
• The main screen appears, on which we need to “Register”.

At the next stage, we indicate your login, password, last name, first name and mobile number. After filling out the required fields, click on the “Next” button. Specify the symbols shown in the image and click “Next”.

Now registration is completed, and we find ourselves in our personal account, which allows us to manage our mail. Yandex fans also have the opportunity to use a proprietary application to work with mail with even greater convenience.

Connect to your Mail.ru email account

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Mail.ru is a relatively well-known Russian service that also allows you to create personal mailboxes on the Internet. The creators of this service have also developed applications for users to conveniently work with mail on smartphones running the Android operating system. We need to install the specified program and go through the registration process according to the algorithm described below.

• Select the found application and use the “Install” function.
• When the installation is complete, use the “Open” option that appears.

To register an email on your smartphone, open the mobile version of the Mail.ru website. The “Registration” button we need is located on the main page. Click on it. Next, fill out a standard questionnaire consisting of gender, date of birth, first and last name. At the same step, we will have to come up with and indicate a variant of the future email address.

After that, specify the password for the account. And in order to be able to restore control over mail if it is lost, we have to indicate our mobile phone number. At the final stage, all that remains is to click on the “Register” button. You can use mail directly from your smartphone browser.

Mail.ru has provided a special adapted version of the interface for convenient viewing of letters on mobile devices. However, you should not forget about the mobile application, since it also copes well with its functions. If you actively use email and speed is a determining factor for you, you will most likely find the application more efficient.

Create a Rambler account on an Android phone

It's time to take a closer look at how to use your smartphone to become the owner of a new mailbox in the Rambler service. We use the algorithm described below.

• Open the found program and click on the “Install” button.
• When the installation is complete, open the application.
• At the bottom of the window, use the “Registration” function.
• Specify personal information and address for a new mailbox

At the next stage, we have to name the region of residence and a control question. The latter is necessary to be able to restore access to email if the information specified during registration is lost. At the final stage, all we have to do is inform the system that a person is working with it, not a robot, and click on the “Register” button.

To speed up the registration process, you can use authorization through one of the social networks. This feature is available to users of Google, Facebook, OK and VK.

Create a Gmail address

Along with the creation of a Google profile, an email account is also created. So, to create a Google account, let's go to one of its pages using the link. In the window that opens, do not forget to enter your name, then your last name, and in the “Username” line you need to come up with a unique combination of letters and numbers so that you remember it easily and this login is beautiful. Click on the “Next” button.

After this, you need to enter a phone number. We enter it, and then take the code from the SMS and enter it in the appropriate field.

You will be asked to enter your number again. Do this because... the phone number will be useful to you if you accidentally forget it, namely, what password and login you used to register. By using your phone number, you can easily restore forgotten information. After that, indicate your birthday, and, if desired, another email address. Whenever you need, you can freely log into your mail using the link https://mail.google.com/.

What does registration give?

Special functions available after data entry include the following:

• Access to Play Market. The store gives access to millions of applications to provide the necessary smartphone functions, install games and other programs.
• Synchronization of contacts. You can set up your contacts to be automatically added to your account. The list will be available from the corresponding section of Google.
• Calendar. You can indicate important events on your smartphone or on the website, and the application will remind you of them.
• Google drive. Cloud storage allows you to store files without taking up device memory. All data will be available online from a computer or other device.

Android smartphones have a lot of built-in programs from Google. This includes:

• Email gmail.
• Google drive.
• Google photo.
• Google video.
• Google games.
• Google books.
• Google pay – payments from your phone.

All applications are designed to perform certain operations, but require a Google account to activate.

Method 1: use Play Market

This method is the simplest, but it is only suitable when you need to find out the name of Google mail. As you know, the Gmail email account is used for authorization in many of the company’s pre-installed services, ranging from Google Play to the map application. So, to find out your email address through the Play Market, use the following instructions:

1. Let's launch the application.
2. Click on the icon in the form of three stripes located in the upper left corner of the screen.
3. In the menu that appears, we see the name of the linked account. This is the required email address.

Finding out your email address through the Play Market

As you can see, in just a few clicks we were able to find out the email address associated with a specific smartphone.

Method 2: through phone settings

If the previous option is not suitable for certain reasons, then you can go the other way by using the standard application with settings. It is there that you can view the accounts that were logged into on this device. As usual, we present to your attention detailed instructions:

1. Let's go to settings.
2. Go to the “Accounts” or “Synchronization” section. The name directly depends on the smartphone model, or more precisely, on the installed shell and version of Android.
3. Select the account you are interested in. For example, consider a standard situation when you need to find out your Google email address.
4. We see a list of email addresses that you have ever logged into on the phone you are currently using.

Find out your email address through settings

In fact, there is nothing complicated about this, so even a beginner can handle following the instructions.

How to open a mailbox

The account has been created and connected to the system. How to open it? The operation is performed in different ways:

In the browser. Open the website of the service where you registered your email. Go to the login page. Enter your username and password.

In the mail service application. If you have previously logged into the mail application, you just need to launch it from your desktop. The profile of the connected mailbox automatically opens or a menu appears to select an account. If there are several accounts, switch between them using the application menu. When you first start, you will need to enter your profile login credentials.

In the Mail application. Launch your email client. Open the menu and select the required account.

IMAP/SMTP service is disabled

Users of Gmail and Yandex most often encounter this problem. But it can also be solved. If the IMAP SMTP service is disabled, how to enable it on Android? To activate the feature in Gmail you need:

1. Login to your email client;
2. Go to “Settings”;
3. Find the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab;
4. Select the desired action.

The Yandex mailer will have a “Mail Programs” folder in its “Settings”. Developers of other email clients have made protocols active by default.

You can install and configure mail on any smartphone. The process will not take much time and will not require complex preparation, but it will open up a number of new opportunities for users.

Google Services

There are a large number of services of this company. To work with each of them, a Google account is useful.