New poll: do you use mobile email?

by Volker Weber

Today we have lots of ways to access our email while away from the office or away from home. How do you access your mail when you are not in front of your computer?

  1. BlackBerry
  2. Exchange ActiveSync
  3. Phone with IMAP/POP support
  4. Webmail
  5. Other
  6. Not at all

The results:

mobile email

2007-12-11 :: email :: bookmark :: digg

Comments

I use the gmail application for my Nokia N95. Works like a charm.

other.

BB + HTC with Activesync and webmail

I have ticked Blackberry (which is for business), but in addition I use also GMail clients on the BB and on a Nokia 6021.

Armin Auth, 2007-12-12 08:47

I am surprised that only 7& (up until now) are using Exchange ActiveSync. Lots of people I know use it.
Wouldn't it be nice to add a geographic location to the poll. Maybe there are difference between Europe and the US?

Nokia E61 with OneBridge for the company email, gmail app and imap for some other accounts. Also use Skype and gTalk in the same device.

Tobias, vowe.net tends to have a heavy Notes following, so it's probably a losing battle for Exchange. Tell your friends about the poll. :-)

MBP 17" with vodafone HSDPA modem box. Home is where your heart is.

Armin Roth, 2007-12-12 10:20

http://gmail.com/app is much faster and leaner than pop/imap/web mail on the phone

just test it

it only gets the latest x messages

it has access to your google mail address book

just rocks

pierre

pierre kerchner, 2007-12-12 10:59

By the way, does Notes offer something similar to Exchange Push, or do you need a BB server?

@Tobias: currently people use BB or similar, but IBM are launching a new product called IBM Lotus Notes Traveler some time in the new year; apparently this will offer “out of the box” mobile messaging.

I use a BlackBerry with BES (Domino) and read my Googlemail Account on it.
Since last week i have a iPhone with OneBridge to sync/Read the Mail of my new company (Exchange 2007).

I am a big fan of Mail For Exchange (Nokia's implementation of Exchange ActiveSync). Works great and is free.

i use mail for exchange on my E61 for my mail2web account.

i also have profimail which I use for all my other pop/imap accounts - work, gmail, hotmail. To get free pop access to hotmail, i am routing my hotmail mails via www.fastmail.fm. I have never really been comfortable using the gmail client, but that's just me....
Since I dont want to have profimail running in the background all the time, i have also created an account in the built in client for my work email - so that I get notifications immediately.

i also use Yahoo go 2 to access yahoo mail. Not that i like the yahoo go 2 client....i could go on for a long time about how yahoo go 1.0 was the closest thing to a killer app that i have ever seen on a mobile phone, whereas yahoo go 2 is basically a pile of ****, but i wont, since this not the right forum. But the pile of **** gives me free access to yahoo mail, so I use it (for email only)

Libin Thomas, 2007-12-14 07:07

I use Gmail, with IMAP. Works great on my Nokia N95.

I also have the Gmail application on my phone, which is ideal when I need to search for an email, as I can lay my hands on the message quickly from the mobile.

On my Nokia E61, i'm using Mail For Exchange for my corporate mail. It works great and have all the functionality i need (especially after the ver.2.0 release).

For my private mail, i connect to my POP3 server via the built-in mail application on the E61.

I use Windows Live for S60 to access my hotmail account (which by the way also connects to Windows Live Messenger).

Jan Kipper Andersen, 2007-12-14 10:05

I was a great fan of Mail for Exchange till I discovered Seven Always-On (Beta). My organisation uses Domino and I used to POP the mails but couldn't sync my Domino calendar and contacts. But with Seven, I can do all that. Only caveat is that the desktop connector has to be always on to push the mails to the mobile. I've installed the desktop connector in a staging server which is always on.. so no probs here.

Seven also supports Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo along with other POP/IMAP. I use this for my Gmail account too. Previously I used Gmail Apps.

Faridur Choudhury, 2007-12-14 18:32

Mail for Exchange for me on E'series, version 2 has really moved this on and we are rolling it out to more and more handsets.

I am using the mail application on my Nokia E70 to access our imap server via ssl. Thanks to the IDLE function in our imap server it's almost like push mail.

Norbert Schuler, 2007-12-15 01:29

Blackberry. The best mobile email device to date. Others can only play catch up. It's built for speed (even with 5 email accounts setup), it's got productivity enhanced shortcuts, and on my 8820, it's got the awesome trackball for navigation.

Erwin Kindangen, 2007-12-15 01:45

I wasn't sure what to respond because I use a hybrid system. I have an E65 set up with mail4exchange that mostly just alerts me that an email has arrived sometimes I will even read it on the phone but never respond or compose on the phune. When I am ready to deal with the mail I use my trusty N800 and webmail. I know carrying two devices is a little much but the tablet is just so useful and I never carry a laptop. I selected webmail in the poll.
Fred

Fred Farber, 2007-12-18 02:27

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