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| | Samuel Murray 
Netherlands
Local time: 11:31
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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| Also off-topic | Jul 16, 2010 |
Veronica Lupascu wrote:
Life was much easier when Apple and Blackberry were just fruits.
Blackberries aren't fruits -- they're berries.
| | | | pcovs
Denmark
Local time: 11:31
English to Danish
can easily be set up to send and receive emails, as others have already mentioned, and it can be set up to retrieve any new mails automatically at a given interval, so you don't need to go get mails manually.
It connects to the internet whenever it is searching for new emails, and then it disconnects itself.
You can make it send out an audible signal if you have new mails.
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Samuel Murray wrote: Veronica Lupascu wrote:
Life was much easier when Apple and Blackberry were just fruits. Blackberries aren't fruits -- they're berries.
No, they are just telephones.
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Carla Selyer wrote:
I find the HTC to be perfect. You can set up several email accounts on it and in order to download emails, you go to send/receive and voila, all the latest emails you receive are delivered! This helps if you are waiting for an important email to come from a client, you can check it any time anywhere and it is on the desktop of your phone - you don't need to go to the internet in order to download your messages. An upgrade to a blackberry is definitely the next step!
HTC makes quite a few handsets, some of them run Windows Mobile, others run Android. Maybe they even make a few Symbian phones for the fun of it, I don't know.
What I'm saying is that you need to provide a model name or at least OS type for the post to make sense... all the OSes have different email clients.
The best possible experience is probably:
A) Blackberry with push - I believe this requires a server at your company. Not sure if/how freelancers can get Blackberry push email.
B) Gmail and android. Android has a decent client you can use for all POP3 mail services (the paid yahoo mail service etc.) and an even better dedicated gmail client. I don't know how they made it happen, but it does push email. So if you have gmail or you can switch to gmail, or forward all your mails there, Android is the way to go - which in practice means HTC or Motorola, as they tend to make the best Android phones. The HTC Incredible, EVO and Desire and the Motorola Droid/Milestone and Droid X are all good devices.
Sadly, none of the android devices has a usable hardware keyboard. The Droid/Milestone has a slide-out QWERTY, but it's the worst keyboard ever made... all the others just have the on-screen keyboard.
[Edited at 2010-07-16 13:48 GMT]
| | | | Sebastian Witte
Germany
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Member (2004)
English to German
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| As someone mentioned, a QWERTY keyboard (possibly a slide-out one so phone won't become bulky) ... | Jul 20, 2010 |
... allows for substantially faster typing than an onscreen, virtual keyoard.
I don't own the following QWERTY messaging phones, but they get pretty positive user reviews and A to B ratings in magazine/specialist websites' tests also. The respective OSes are in brackets. Symbian (at least from what I know) is the world's favorite cellphone operating system for usability/user guidance reasons. Linux-based Maemo is an OS developed by Nokia themselves. The phones are listed in descendi... See more ... allows for substantially faster typing than an onscreen, virtual keyoard.
I don't own the following QWERTY messaging phones, but they get pretty positive user reviews and A to B ratings in magazine/specialist websites' tests also. The respective OSes are in brackets. Symbian (at least from what I know) is the world's favorite cellphone operating system for usability/user guidance reasons. Linux-based Maemo is an OS developed by Nokia themselves. The phones are listed in descending order of personal preferences.
1. Nokia N97 (available not only in most electronics markets, but also with your local cellphone provider's chain store and obviously via www) - Symbian 9.4 S60
2. Nokia N900 - Maemo (available only in very large electronics markets and online, at least in my country)
They both ain't bulky because of the pull-out keyboards and the compact screens which are 3.5 inch in length top right to bottom left corner. I have found 3 to 3.5 inches found to be the ideal mixture of compactness and readability but some people prefer large screens.
These are technologically advanced devices, meaning there's not just the same old Wi-Fi you can't use very often anyway, at least not for free or little money, but HSDPA (mobile highspeed downlink data connectivity, presently 1.8 to 7.2 mbps - compare this to A-DSL and you'll realize it's quite something) which in my country allows for fast internet and email retrieval in cities and big towns for just 10 euros a month besides a telephony subscription (200 to 300 MBs of data traffic included and you can still use your SIM card for telephony - if opting for a different solution, you get up to 500 MBs a month at that rate, but there will then be certain extra costs involved if you need to be reachable by phone also).
The N900 has HSUPA (highspeed uplink) for quickly sending email as well. Lacking that is a major drawback with the N97, sadly.
Outside cities and big towns, there's standard data speed (384 kbps/56 kbps) which is a bit tedious, but still acceptable in quite a number of situations. GPS routing for pedestrians is available with the two phones also. This is not really comparable to standalone GPS routing though in terms of quality and usability; I know because I have it on my phone and I have standalone GPS as well. At least Ovimaps by Nokia (should be on there) is the best cellphone-based GPS software available, from what I read in magazines.
Of course, they also have a camera (who woulda thought that ...). ▲ Collapse
| | | | Louisa Berry
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:31
Member (2009)
German to English
| Iphone email | Jul 20, 2010 |
I have had an iPhone (3GS not the newest version 4) for a few weeks now. I only set it to automatically download from my gmail account when I am not at my pc, otherwise it uses far too much power, but I find that if I charge it every evening or every other evening then this isn't a problem.
So when I'm not at my computer I set it to ask the server every 10 minutes if there is any new email. If there is, it downloads it and beeps at me.
However I was wondering if anyone... See more I have had an iPhone (3GS not the newest version 4) for a few weeks now. I only set it to automatically download from my gmail account when I am not at my pc, otherwise it uses far too much power, but I find that if I charge it every evening or every other evening then this isn't a problem.
So when I'm not at my computer I set it to ask the server every 10 minutes if there is any new email. If there is, it downloads it and beeps at me.
However I was wondering if anyone else with an iPhone had experienced this issue.. I keep getting lots of blank emails with no sender dated 01.01.1972. I wonder if these are emails I may have deleted on my pc before downloading to the iPhone?
@ Samuel.. I thought a berry was a type of fruit? ▲ Collapse
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Louisa Fox wrote:
I was wondering if anyone else with an iPhone had experienced this issue.. I keep getting lots of blank emails with no sender dated 01.01.1972. I wonder if these are emails I may have deleted on my pc before downloading to the iPhone?
That has to be a bug of some sort, i.e. not your error and there is probably not much you can do to stop it happening. It could be a problem with you mail service provider or with the iphone software... I'd check if the blank emails also show up on a computer (sort in reverse order by date to see mails dated 1972).
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sarandor
United States
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