| Sriram Karra ( @ 2008-07-17 01:58:00 |
Getting the intrusive email on your mobile Just Right
I have a Nokia 6300 and I love it. I deliberately avoided getting a 'business class' phone with "advanced productivity applications" like BlackBerry - just to keep things simple. However after turning up for meetings that got canceled an hour before the scheduled time while I was in The Tube hurrying to make it in time, it became clear I could not avoid fetching mail on my mobile any longer. So the choice was to either give in and go for a BlackBerry (or E-whatever) or resist some more. Maybe a quarter or two more... :)
I think I have found the proper solution. The 6300 is not a symbian phone, so there's no BlackBerry Connect software for it. However there is a built in Email client which does POP and IMAP. The best things about this internal client are (a) it's not a "push mail" thingie, AND (b) POP-ing mail is immensely patience testing, yet just barely not-deal-breakingly slow process. So there's no temptation to do any more email work on the mobile than you absolutely must have to.
I think this is the Right Read-Only email-on-the-move solution.
I have a Nokia 6300 and I love it. I deliberately avoided getting a 'business class' phone with "advanced productivity applications" like BlackBerry - just to keep things simple. However after turning up for meetings that got canceled an hour before the scheduled time while I was in The Tube hurrying to make it in time, it became clear I could not avoid fetching mail on my mobile any longer. So the choice was to either give in and go for a BlackBerry (or E-whatever) or resist some more. Maybe a quarter or two more... :)
I think I have found the proper solution. The 6300 is not a symbian phone, so there's no BlackBerry Connect software for it. However there is a built in Email client which does POP and IMAP. The best things about this internal client are (a) it's not a "push mail" thingie, AND (b) POP-ing mail is immensely patience testing, yet just barely not-deal-breakingly slow process. So there's no temptation to do any more email work on the mobile than you absolutely must have to.
I think this is the Right Read-Only email-on-the-move solution.