Push email for mobile phones
- By ravinder malik
- Published 05/5/2008
It is interesting that the approach that
vendors and carriers continue to tout to users is that they need ALL
their emails on the mobile phones. Users can either register for a “push” email
for mobile phones service such as the Blackberry and receive every annoying
desktop email they get in its full glory with its hundreds of lines and
threads. Or they can sign-up to other vendor offerings such as Google or Yahoo!
with their “pull” offerings for Smart Phones which download your desktop email
view to your 2×2 inch micro screen! Both types of services force you into
expensive plans of $50-100 per month and you have to buy a Smart Phone. This is
even the model for the more innovative devices such as the iPhone from Apple.
So, what is a poor overwhelmed user to do?
Users need to look at reducing the volume
and hence expense of the “all” or “nothing” model. The enterprise
can
look at buying a product that only forwards the critical emails to users with
the option to reduce the content of those emails down to the key content.
Consumers can similarly sign-up to Smart Email-to-SMS portals that automatically reduce the number
of packets (and hence cost) based on salient content and then decide if that
email should go mobile or not.
The carriers and the vendors would have us
believe there are no such services! All you have to do is look at innovative
solutions like the Email to SMS solution of Amika Mobile to know
that there are great alternatives out there!!
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