“Virtually” Push Email on UIQ Phones!
Steve Litchfield, over at All About Symbian, wrote a great article yesterday on how to put Gmail on your Nokia Symbian-based S60 phone. In addition, he noted that you can set the phone to automatically check for new messages every few minutes (the duration is configurable). By setting it to, say, every 5 minutes, you effectively get “push” email just like a BlackBerry! That’s pretty nice, especially for “prosumers” who rely on email but may be often away from the office, such as real estate agents or people who work in small offices without formal IT departments.
(And besides, the BlackBerry user interface is boring boring boring. And it’s too hard to set the damn things up for PIM sync. And who wants to pay extra for the “BlackBerry Bolt-On” like some carriers charge, along with any extra fees that your email provider may tack on!)
The cool thing is that this same capability is built into UIQ phones! So I updated my blog posting from January with the step-by-step instructions for folks like me who are enjoying UIQ devices.
My Blog Post: Putting Gmail on Your UIQ3 Phone
