Push email is arriving at a Symbian smartphone near you shortly, and Ewan's been living with push email for the last 3 weeks while in the USA. A welcome tool or nagging distraction from the business of life? Push email treads a fine line. Comments and experiences welcome!
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My email program (ProfiMail) checks for new email every 5 minutes (24/7) and notifies me if I have new mail... I can't imagine why would I need push email service?!
Personally I think that push email is the biggest hype since WAP!! 😉 Very few people actually need it and for the rest of us it brings absolutely no advantage over traditional mobile email... but it's nice to have!!
=)juha
Personally, I tend to concentrate on things for 10-15 mins at a time. After that, I think 'hmm, wonder what email's waiting' and then have a look at what's been retrieved in the background (on the PC by Outlook, on the smartphone by Messaging). The idea of being beeped every time a junk email arrived drives my mad. It's bad enough being interrupted by SMS messages... 8-)
I guess you could turn off notifications with push email, but then there's no point in paying for the service in the first place!
Steve 'luddite' Litchfield
Email is my primary means of communication. I would no sooner turn off email notification than most people turn off their cell phone ringers.
IMO push email is for people who like to portray they are super important, extremely busy and work around the clock :tongue: .
Since my work involves interacting with people from a lot of time zones I only use pull email (every 30 mins) for an hour or two after I leave work and an hour before I get to work. Out of these hours my email is off; if something is urgent people can call or txt me.
And with the amount of junk I receive, pull email itself drives me crazy!
I can't understand how Symbian/GSM standards implement Push email, I think it is still basically pull email unless the device keeps a data connection open all the time. That is how my office mail system works too; my client checks for emails every 5 mins, nice and simple eh!
Boom
I must admit that push e-mail isn't for me, but I know plenty of people for whom it's a vital lifeline. It enables them to spend time at home with their kids whilst still being in contact with the office.
As for spam, what e-mail services are you guys using. I've had the same e-mail address at home for 12 years and I just don't receive spam. Ever!
"akboom
Comment: IMO push email is for people who like to portray they are super important, extremely busy and work around the clock"
I seem to remember them saying the same thing about mobile phones when they started to become popular...
I think SMS is better, I can get a SMS message with the notice of a mail, and the subject... still like more the sms, the usa people don't understand the sms and the mms (just like mail) which are going to be delivered to the person no matter what... and is cost effective, in M�xico all the people use the SMS as the messenger in the PC, so it is more probable people to check the SMS than the mail...
I think the RIM "invention" is not really different than SMS or MMS, cause all provaider I know about provide a mail to sms solution
i also use profimail...so whats the point of push email again?