Besides people going crazy for iPhone 3G, the hottest thing on WWW seems to be PUSH E-Mail.
The ability to receive emails instantaneously on your mobile is no longer limited to the likes of Blackberry. Many popular services have mushroomed up all over the Internet that bring the wonders of Push E-mail to your conventional bar clad mobile phone. One such service is Emoze.
Why I am totally impressed with Emoze as a push mail alternative is because it just simply works. Besides pushing your emails in real time, it also pushes your contacts to your mobile phone as soon as they are changed or created on the Web.
Emoze works out of the box with Gmail, Yahoo Mail and OWA (outlook 2003/2007 web access). It also works with POP3/ Exchange via MS Outlook desktop connector.
Ever since I have started using Emoze on my new N95 8GB I have not logged in online to my Gmail account. It’s just convenient to check and reply to my emails via my phone.
Emoze also integrates with the Pocket Outlook interface on Windows Mobile phones and is a breeze to use.
There are some other providers who have been fishing in the same water for sometime now, including Consilient and Emansio. One advantage Consilient has over Emoze is that it allows you to push more than 1 email account at one time to your cellphone but this comes at the cost of loading Consilient own email application on your cellphone, while Emoze works with the phone’s built in Email handler.
All PUSH mail services require a full data plan as they make use of some ports in the 9000 series. Although there is an option for HTTP Tunnel in Emoze, it did not work for me with either HTC Touch or N95 8GB with a port 80 only data plan. However, like me if you are in a Wifi circle then Emoze will work like a charm and you will never have to sit at your desktop waiting for that very important email.
In order of preference
Web - Emoze
Web - Consilient
Web - Emansio
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