Even though I’ve always been a strong enthusiast for the internet and especially email (someone once told me that everyone had a technological format that is “theirs” - SMS, letters, whatever - and mine is definitely email!), for a long time I avoided accessing the internet from my mobile. I’m not quite sure why - I think probably a vague worry that I’d very quickly run up very large bills.
However a run of particularly boring meetings last summer did the trick, and in one particularly dull one I managed to work out how to rig up the settings to access my email from it.
Away from a computer over some of the Christmas period it was particularly helpful, and I was delighted to discover Opera Mini - which to some readers will be very well-known, but for others, is good mobile version of one of the open-source (ie free) internet browsers, and much better than the crappy one that comes with my phone. It isn’t perfect, trying to do it all on a screen only about an inch square, but, you know, there are some times when you just need to catch up with Facebook”¦
I’ve also been looking for a similar piece of software for handling email rather better than the inbuilt “application”. Google and Yahoo have their own apps for handling email accounts on their own system. Indeed Yahoo’s Go allows you to do quite a few more things too with it too, and Google also have a beta (ie still test) version of Google maps for phones.
But if anyone knows of a standard email client application for mobiles then I’d be delighted to hear from them!
January 11th, 2008 at 11:23
Jeremy, what phone do you have and what email provider do you use?
January 11th, 2008 at 12:13
Phone is Nokia 6233. The email I’m interested in having on it is from my own domain name (accessed via POP3).
January 15th, 2008 at 16:28
hello Jeremy, don’t know why but I’ve always been reluctant myself to do that, certainly because scared by the potential cost but also out of laziness in going through the settings, although now I recall managing once when isolated in the Alps without laptop nor internet point and craving for the web.
Anyway, I’ve given a link to your blog because I aim to exchange links with the finest liberal blogs internationally, particularly in the US and the UK, where I had been living for 7 years and was a member of the Lib-Dems. My blog is mainly in Italian but you’ll find that one post out of 7 (roughly) is in English as well. Come visit me and link me back if you like. HNY and ciao!