Getting e-mails on your mobile

I have been asked many times by people on how to access their mails from their mobile phones, the usual mails with a known pop and its smtp address may be easily imputed into the typical phone settings under the messaging setting, however, the issue comes about when they are using free webmail services such as yahoo mail, hotmail or gmail accounts… or maybe when they wish to use multiple accounts.

Let me start off with the easy approach for some webmail specific applications that allow mails to be downloaded to their mobile.

For yahoo, they have presented their subscribers with Yahoo! Go service, a client that can be downloaded to your mobile and you can log in from that application to retrieve the personal services that you have subscribed from yahoo! Such as Yahoo Photos, Contacts, Messenger and Mail.

Here is how the application user interface would present itself :


Log yourself in and start exploring your yahoo web services from your mobile.

The application is currently compatible to Windows Mobile and selected Nokia phones. At present, the application is being pre-installed in the new N-Series by Nokia. And the application is rather memory consuming... it takes up more than 2 mb from your phone and you cannot install it in the memory card :-(.

Google Mail users can point their mobile browser to http://gmail.com/app to download a java client (its about 137 kb) and have it installed on your mobile. Once installed, have your username and password keyed in and click on sign in… its so easy. But there has been issues on its stability… I have been getting a lot of error in connection.

But the good thing about the Gmail client is, it has the key items in the command menu such as mark, search and etc… I find these features enjoyable.




But in cases where you don't want to download huge application or application for just one e-mail account, you can try one of my favourite application,
flurrymail





With Flurry, you can add multiple e-mail accounts, manage your PIM and some links to newsfeeds of your selection. It has a friendly interface and easy to use but most importantly, it compresses your mails and minimizes the data usage from your mobile.

I hope this segment helps those who have been wondering about e-mails through mobile. Have fun exploring.. there are also other applications such as MOVAMAIL, and TADGAP that you could try... but always be mindful that these activities uses GPRS/EDGE or 3G connection, make sure that you are on the right subscription plan from your mobile operator to ensure that you will not be getting shocking figures on your bill.