Nowadays, most middle-end and high-end mobile phones has their own built in email application that you can use to read and send your emails on the go.
However, there are some big drawbacks in using the standard mobile phone email application that downloads your emails from your email server to your mobile phone, which are:
However, there are some big drawbacks in using the standard mobile phone email application that downloads your emails from your email server to your mobile phone, which are:
- Mobile internet connection fee is more expensive compared to your regular home/office internet connection.
- The processing capability and memory capacity of mobile phones are limited.
Usually a native mobile phone email applications will be able to store only until 100 or so emails. it's simply a matter of choosing the right free (yes, free) java email application for your mobile phone which offers the right kind of free service (yes, again.. free service) to store and manage your emails.
It's actually quite easy to turn your mobile phone into a phone that is capable of very powerful mobile email functionalities such as:
It's actually quite easy to turn your mobile phone into a phone that is capable of very powerful mobile email functionalities such as:
- Checking your emails and sending them while on the move.
- Archiving of gigabytes worth of emails. You can do this even from an old cracked phone like my Motorola Razr V3.
- Search through your gigantic email database within seconds. Looking for an old email from your old friend Sam? Now you can do it from your mobile phone within seconds.
- Having an advanced spam filter right in your mobile phone. Spams will go where they belong, in the trash bin, without you ever needing to sort them out manually
- Very efficient bandwidth usage. Imagine forwarding an email you receive with 8 MB attachment to a coleague or friend using only several kilobytes worth of your mobile data plan. Impossible? think again.. you'll love it when you try it.
- Install an email java application for mobile phone that can retrieve POP3 emails from your mail server. Do a search on google for "java mobile phone email application" and you'll get a lot of programs that can do this for free.
- Setup your email client in your office/home computer to leave messages on mail server after emails have been downloaded
- Set your email client in your office/home computer to delete messages from mail server only after 5 days
Some note: email client means the email program you're using on your home/office computer to read and send emails. You must choose a mobile java application that stores the emails in its server.
Summary article from Jason Sandy
Summary article from Jason Sandy