Jul 29, 2007
Etisalat Pushmail
Etisalat has this new service called PushMail. And it’s like it says a push mail service for (compatible) mobile phones.
I just tried it tonight and it works pretty well. Going from Blackberry I can say so far it works pretty much as well as Blackberry. One difference is that with the Blackberry you can have many separate accounts, all being pushed to your mobile device, and you can also send email from all those accounts. With Etisalat’s pushmail it seems you can have one account, which means you can only send from that one account. For most people that’s not really much of an issue.
I use GMail as my email central. I have all my other emails either redirected to GMail or they’re checked with GMail. Which means in GMail I can send email from all the other accounts, but not from my Nokia phone. But it seems like a pretty good deal. For AED45 you get “unlimited e-mails including attachments” (so unlimited email traffic I would guess), compared to the AED185 you pay for Personal Blackberry.
For Etisalat’s PushMail you have to install a small application on your mobile device. At least for my Nokia E61i it was 1.3MB. That application then runs in the background, checking your emails all the time.