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Emoze is a free service that pushes email to your mobile phone.

I have used its first version for months. This version needs Outlook to be up and running on your machine at home.

A week ago I switched to the new version of emoze that pushes email directly from Gmail, with no need to leave your computer on, and it rocks.

Unfortunately, as it can also sync contacts and calendar, I noticed some problems straight away with mobile number fields being lost in Outlook. I thought I had not disactivated the contacts sync, so I did, and manually reinserted all mobile numbers in Outlook (way to spend a whole Wednesday night!), but it did it again yesterday.

I am still trying to figure out what is going wrong, but you know what? For the first time, instead of giving up and going back to a strict software-based solution (Outlook), I am this close to relying primarily on Gmail's flexible web access, with Outlook possibly as a local back-up solution but nothing more.

I'd never have thought I'd do that one day. Shall I take the plunge?

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