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Free Blackberry Alternative
Start getting push mails in just 10 minutes without any server side configuration, special devices or costly applications
Anindya Roy
Saturday, August 02, 2008
It's a sheer myth that only Blackberry offers push mail service, and you have
to go through lot of hassles to get it activated on your smart phone. In this
article we will take you through a 10-minute exercise after which your smart
phone will become push mail ready without requiring you to pay a single penny.
All you need is a mobile phone with GPRS and an inbuilt mail client. Any
standard phone today comes with these features.
Mail account can be a Gmail or a Hotmail account or it can be any Exchange or
Lotus Notes account provided it gives web-based access. Most Exchange or Lotus
Notes
deployments today have this feature enabled.
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Direct Hit! |
Applies To: Everyone with a SmartPhone
Price: Free
USP: Free and simple Push Mail
Primary Link: http://www.emoze.com/
Google Keyword: free push mail |
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| Go to emoze.com, and click on
'Get emoze Now!'. Select type of mail account you have, Gmail, Hotmail or
Web Access 'Push my Office'. We tried with 'Push my Office'. |
In case of 'Push my Office', in
the next screen, the site will ask you to select between Outlook or Lotus
Notes. We went with Outlook. |
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| Emoze only works with Exchange
accounts that provide Web access. Click on 'Yes' if you can access your
Outlook account on the Web. |
Now the system will ask you to
select your phone. First select the brand from the first drop down and then
select the model from the second dropdown and then proceed. |
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| How you would like to get the
software -through PC, SMS or WAP? Click on 'SMS', and you will receive a
link as an SMS. Click on it to download and install the software to your
phone. |
A screen will open up on your
phone. Select 'Push My Office' and proceed. On the second screen, select the
option that says 'OWA' and click on 'Next' to proceed. |
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| Now fill in your username and
password for the email account. The username is the e-mail id without @ and
domain name. |
Here type in your mail domain
name, e.g. if your mail id is abc@xyz.com, then this will will be xyz.com.
In the second field put in the Web address of your mail server. |
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| Enable all folders you want to
synchronize with. By default 'Inbox' is selected and you can't deselect it.
Other folders can be selected or deselected as per your need. |
Everything is done. Just let the
application once connect to your mail account and synchronize, which will
hardly take 2 minutes. Now your device is ready to receive push mails. |
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