Helio serves up push email for any POP/IMAP email account
Posted by Will on Thursday, April 24th, 2008 at 11:36 am under Announcements, Helio, Services
In a confusingly enterprise move, youth-targeting Helio has just announced that their “Ultimate Inbox” service available on the Helio Mysto, Helio Fin, and Helio Ocean handsets is now push-email enabled. Not only will Helio actively push emails to your Helio from any Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail email account, but the new push-email service is said to be compatible with any POP and IMAP email account.
Push email is usually reserved to dedicated push-email services, so Helio’s push (pun unintended) to marry the real-time email service to virtually any email account is a refreshing change.
So, if you’re holding a Helio handset in your hand (or pocket) and still haven’t stumbled upon Helio’s new offering, check out the new service. Just fire up your Helio Mail client and hit “Send/Receive.” When prompted to enable the push-email service, choose accordingly.
[Via: HelioCity]
April 28th, 2008 at 5:11 am
Surely this is just implementing a POP/IMAP and IMAP/IMAP gateway server that supports the IMAP-IDLE functionality for push email?
You can already get this kind of functionality with the data compression you need for mobile email, free of charge on pretty much any handset, from Momail (www.momail.com).
Will
May 18th, 2008 at 5:42 am
Emansio enables push mail on almost any mail service, without any intermediary services or hardware. It’s a pocket outlook plugin.
You can use Google Mail, AOL etc… as well as Exchange and Notes. Your phone connects directly to your email, i.e. no snooping service provider reading your mail.
You can download a free trial from http://www.emansio.com
Regards,
Emansio team