Emoze: free push email for all
Email on the go does not necessarily involve a Blackberry, a server that pushes email to you and a costly subscription. You can achieve pretty much the same if you have the following:
- a desktop machine running Outlook
- a mobile phone that syncs with Outlook - any Windows smartphones or pocket PCs will do
- emoze installed on both machines.
The result: your mobile syncs in real time with your desktop machine. Emoze is a free service that pushes automatically your messages to your mobile from your computer, and viceversa. You read messages on the go, reply to them, and you'll find the reply you wrote from your mobile in your Sent Items folder on your desktop.
One month ago emoze released version 1.4, and the experience has improved considerably. Hardly any battery drain, and efficient and lightning fast access to email.
You will of course also need a suitable data tariff that allows you to be connected all the time. I'm on T-Mobile (unlimited data for 7 pounds 50 per month on top of any T-Mobile price plan), and recently Orange launched a similar tariff (around 8 pounds per month, 30MB max, currently not advertised on their website but offered when you sign up or change plan).
Emoze can also synchronise calendar, contacts, tasks and notes - but I personally chose to sync those via USB only when I'm at home. That would be overkill.
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