push email phone?worth it?

cranezoe

Hi,

I have o2's sim only deal - 600 mins/1000 text/unlimited internet for £20 p/m.
I had a sony erricison k770i which I then gave my husband as I was product testing a motorola q9 for lightspeed surveys. I was meant to be testing it for a year but they are closing the panel at the end of this month and then I shall be phoneless! :eek: gulp.

Now, I could just ask my husband for my phone back but I have loved having this motorola q9 - it has windows mobile and push email and is much easier to go online etc so Im thinking I'd like a new phone.

Are there any phones that do push email that I can just buy to work with my sim deal?
Are there any very good contract deals at the moment or coming soon?
Should I give up the idea of getting a push phone - are there phones that are good for being able to check email quickly and reply easily?

thanks for any help :beer:

cranezoe

any thoughts or words of wisdom??

lewt

emoze (google it) is push mobile for phones with s60 on them. i use it on my n95

although if you want hotmail pushed it has got to be a windows mobile i think.

cranezoe

thats really useful. I'd never heard of emoze - looks good. I dont have hotmail.
what does s60 mean?

bradc

cranezoe wrote: »

thats really useful. I'd never heard of emoze - looks good. I dont have hotmail.
what does s60 mean?

Yes I would like to know this also? And to clarify I can't use Emoze with hotmail, what about gmail?

Thanks.

Jon_01

Emoze works with gmail, Hotmails a pain for any push system (unless things have changed since I tested Blackberrys a while ago).

robt_2

cranezoe wrote: »

thats really useful. I'd never heard of emoze - looks good. I dont have hotmail.
what does s60 mean?

It is an operating system which runs on many Nokia handsets, and some handsets from other phone makers. There is a list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian_Series_60

As for a handset, you would be hard pressed to find a bad review of a Nokia E71. Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_E71

mobile-bits

Jon_01 wrote: »

Emoze works with gmail, Hotmails a pain for any push system (unless things have changed since I tested Blackberrys a while ago).

Not sure about emoze, but Hotmail now have an agreement with RIM and works fine with BlackBerry

Robert

UncleSimit

I have the same sim-only contract and have a Nokia E71 using push email, which works fine. I swapped my unlimited text for a web bolt-on too.

cranezoe

thanks for the explanations of emooze.
I went for the G1 google phone in the end which is working well. (except I moved house and cant get decent signal - neither can friends on vodafone, o2, orange or virgin grrr! It slows down the push email but its working pretty well generally yay!)