Emoze - a free Push Email solution for PocketPCs Palms and Symbian

Jukov · 04-06-06, 06:14 AM

Emoze, a company of Emblaze ltd. group, has released a new application, dedicated to provide a push-email solution for smartphones and handhelds.

"What is emoze?
A FREE global Push E-mail service for mobile devices -- cell phones, PDAs, etc. This free Blackberry-like service will push send your E-mails and PIM data to you anywhere and to any device.
Who is it for?
Executives that do not have or cannot afford a Blackberry®*, students, moms and dads, friends... Anyone with a mobile device and an E-mail account – Anyone who wants free Push E-mail on any device."

The new free distributed solution is on the direct clash with the Blackberries. The Blackberry service is well know and used all over the world by the corporate users to push email to the mobile device as soon as it arrives to the workers' email boxes, without the necessity of checking the email directly.
The Emoze software is installed on the personal computer and syncs the Contacts and the Calendar and pushes the mail to the mobile device. The other part of this application is installed on the mobile device and recieves the incoming email.
The app is not interfiering with the current tasks and works at the background.
The company suggests that the way this application works will cut costs as the app is not sending a query at specific periods of time , but a real push-email as the message arrives at the email account.

The app's preferences allow one to choose "rules" for "pushing" - limiting the attachments, the size of an email, etc. These rules should cut the costs of the cellular provider's connection. (Who cares when you have an Unlimited plan, right?)

The app has only English interface, but in the future, as the company states, it will be released in another 15 languages. This limitaion does not extend to the email itself , you can recieve and write emails in any language you like.

A clash with Blackberry?
The most important feature of Emoze is being absolutely free - downloading, installation and service. The app is not using the Emblaze servers and not storing your data elsewhere, besides your PC and your mobile device (aka Axim ;) ). The company plans to release a shareware version for the coprorate users with advanced features in the near future, but insists on a free service for the "home" version users.
Emoze is also working on versions for regular (non-symbian) phones, as they believe this service sould be a basic feature on all platforms.
Nowdays it seems that everyone wants a bite of the RIM's market, but in this case, we, the non-corporate users have a real , free solution in hands.

Pros' and cons'
Well, the pros' are obvious. What we get is an absolutely free version of the Blackberry-like service for our Axims and phones. This service was unavailible for users without the Blackberry devices, servers and fees.
The cons' are less obvious. First, I think this app would be more used by devices with full keyboards (no problem with our Axims), as it would be quite annoying to write emails with the 12-key phone solution. The other problem is that your PC turns into your personal push-email "server". It means that if you what this service to work, you pc should be always on.

The app can be bownloaded from here
for more info go to the Emoze website

userfriendly · 04-06-06, 06:53 AM

Sounds interesting.....I will try to take a look this W/E....

wrongway15 · 04-06-06, 09:41 AM

ok so i guess we have to have a wireless lan connection with the axim...maybe its time to spring for a BT phone.

phatch · 04-06-06, 02:01 PM

Why do I want Push e-mail anyway?

Wasn't the nice thing about email was that it waited patiently for you to get to it at YOUR convenience, not the SENDERs?

Phil

04-06-06, 02:23 PM

Thanks for the review. I don't think that this is something for me but I appreciate it all the same.

wrongway15 · 04-06-06, 03:23 PM

phatch....i want push email for my convenience (and sometimes when its convenient, i am not at my PC which is inconvenient)

04-06-06, 03:58 PM

With a Blackberry server you get end-to-end encryption. I would expect that this is left off of this solution.

04-06-06, 07:39 PM

Originally Posted by phatch

Why do I want Push e-mail anyway?

Wasn't the nice thing about email was that it waited patiently for you to get to it at YOUR convenience, not the SENDERs?

Phil

While you are at work or on the beach (away from your home PC) you are not going to have any emails pushed to you anyway. The way I understand it is your PC is effectively the email storage server, storing your emails until you plug your PDA into it's cradle (or link up to your PC wirelessly).

Isn't this how email works normally? Am I missing something?

Patrick Y. · 04-06-06, 08:03 PM

hmm... I noticed that it said "Outloox 2003" on the requirement page. I only have 2002.

Anyway, still going to try it.

**Rishad** · 04-06-06, 08:05 PM

I'll be checking this out. Read more about push email.

Jukov · 04-06-06, 08:46 PM

Originally Posted by Chillywinter

While you are at work or on the beach (away from your home PC) you are not going to have any emails pushed to you anyway. The way I understand it is your PC is effectively the email storage server, storing your emails until you plug your PDA into it's cradle (or link up to your PC wirelessly).

Isn't this how email works normally? Am I missing something?

The emails are pushed to your mobile device as they are received to your PC. So you do get your emails pushed to you as you are at work or on the beach. You do not contact your server (PC) - it will contact you

yume · 04-07-06, 12:11 AM

Hm..sorry I don't quite seem to get how it works. So does my Axim needs to stay online constantly to have emails "pushed" to it? If your Axim is brought offline, it won't automatically go online and get the email, right?

So what is the difference? (Other than the fact that you don't need to setup your Axim email client to check email every x minutes)

JanQ · 04-07-06, 02:10 AM

It does not sync your email only but also tasks, appointment, contacts, etc.
I already tested it and it worked flawlessly. Almost no configuration is needed.
After installation I just connected to the internet through wifi and my emails and PIMs were synced automatically. Great way if you want to sync remotely and you do not have an exchange server. However it still has limitations that makes it useless for me, e.g. max. appointment span it synchronizes is now + three weeks only

. It also seems that it added reminder to all my tasks :rolling: . Anyway I look forward to new versions…

04-07-06, 06:27 AM

Originally Posted by yume

Hm..sorry I don't quite seem to get how it works. So does my Axim needs to stay online constantly to have emails "pushed" to it? If your Axim is brought offline, it won't automatically go online and get the email, right?

So what is the difference? (Other than the fact that you don't need to setup your Axim email client to check email every x minutes)

I'm with yume - I don't get it.

Originally Posted by Jukov

The emails are pushed to your mobile device as they are received to your PC...

Yeah, well so far that sounds the same as downloading your email from your email server as soon as you place your axim in it's cradle

Originally Posted by Jukov

...So you do get your emails pushed to you (if) you are at work or on the beach. You do not contact your server (PC) - it will contact you

How does it contact you if you haven't got your Axim plugged into your PC - it's not like BLACKBERRY where it links up to the cellular network of your mobile phone / cell phone provider!!

I don't get it.

04-07-06, 06:56 AM

Some of you guys aren't getting the point.

The basis of Push email is having new emails sent to your device WITHOUT the device having to constantly check for new mail. The benefit of this is less power consumption (your device isn't frequently sending/receiving useless data), less data usage, and the convenience of not having to check mail manually. When new mail comes, the server sends its directly to your device, no user action necessary.

This has nothing to do with sycning your mail when its in the cradle. Push email is done wirelessly, normally over cellular data networks (like the Blackberry's do). You don't have to plug into your computer to update. That defeats the purpose.

I can't wait for a smartphone version to come out. I don't really have much of a use for it on my Axim as I don't leave my Axim and SP5 connected all the time, but it would be great on my phone. If I had a Pocket PC Phone (which I did but like the smallness of the SP5) it would be even better!