Daryl Goard
Postmodern CriticVerizon pushes email to the non-smart phone
June 5th 2008 23:18
Props to Verizon (I never thought I would say that) for making a device better via a software update.
Verizon Wireless Offers Push Email to Consumer Phones
Verizon has launched a service that allows phones besides the Blackberry and Windows mobile device to sync contacts, tasks, email and calendar.
There are a couple caveats however:
You have to have a MS Exchange server in you organization.
Its 10$ per month for the activesync and you have to have some kind of data plan on the phone. These start at 1.99 per MB.
Most everyone I know has some type of smartphone. I wonder if that would change if they could just read their email on a regular phone or enter all their events and contacts in outlook and it be sucked into their device instead of having to type contacts into you phone with a number pad.
I think those with smartphones would have a hard time scaling back to a regular cell phone. Once you add the data plan the game really changes and the devices really change the way you work and play.
Peace
Verizon Wireless Offers Push Email to Consumer Phones
Verizon has launched a service that allows phones besides the Blackberry and Windows mobile device to sync contacts, tasks, email and calendar.
There are a couple caveats however:
You have to have a MS Exchange server in you organization.
Its 10$ per month for the activesync and you have to have some kind of data plan on the phone. These start at 1.99 per MB.
Most everyone I know has some type of smartphone. I wonder if that would change if they could just read their email on a regular phone or enter all their events and contacts in outlook and it be sucked into their device instead of having to type contacts into you phone with a number pad.
I think those with smartphones would have a hard time scaling back to a regular cell phone. Once you add the data plan the game really changes and the devices really change the way you work and play.
Peace
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