The BlackBerry may be the best wireless email device out there, but, it is not the fastest. Free “push” based email delivery company emoze beat Research in Motion’s BlackBerry thumbs down in the 3GSM World Congress Mobile Push Email Showdown last week.
Both shooters stood back to back with their respective handsets - one a BlackBerry, the other a regular mobile phone with the emoze push email application installed. A Gmail account was opened and the email address given to the two duelers. They both created an email on their handsets, walked three paces and on the count of three, turned around and pushed ’send’. The audience watched a screen to see whether the email sent via BlackBerry or emoze would arrive fastest, and as the tension started to build, the emoze email appeared in the inbox first.
What does this mean for Research in Motion’s BlackBerry? Probably not much. I am sure the folks back in Waterloo are saying “put 10 million subscribers on your system then run head to head with us again.” emoze, on the other hand will get a bunch of people looking at them, especially since their solution for consumers is free.
RIM has known for a long time that wireless email ultimately will become a commodity and that the allure of the BlackBerry is the entire package.
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Stac 02.20.07 at 10:18 am
Anyone try emoze with a treo 650 and a Notes account? I can’t get the damn thing to work…
-S
Michael 02.20.07 at 11:17 am
With emoze you have to keep your computer on at all times with your desktop e-mail app running for it to work on your phone. You have to dig a little to find this info on their site. I’m suprised RIM even gave them the time of day.
Rick Mahn 02.20.07 at 2:02 pm
The emoze system works very well. It’s fatal flaw, however, is the power required by the client software. I’ve found that my battery on my T-Mobile MDA (an HTC Wizard) drains 50% faster when running emoze compared with other push-mail systems.
Robb Dunewood 02.20.07 at 3:30 pm
That stinks Michael. Rick, the battery thing stinks too but the having to leave your email client running all the time, really stinks.
G-rock 02.21.07 at 3:08 am
I use emoze on my Nokia E61 and it works just fine. The Installation process is fast and easy, the application gives me everything I need, my emails, calendar, contacts and tasks are being pushed, and it’s for FREE. In order to prevent the battery drain I configured emoze to push my emails every 5 minutes, and it’s working just fine.
Robb Dunewood 02.21.07 at 7:56 am
If you have to schedule emoze to push based on a schedule, how is that any different than setting a pop client to pull on the same schedule?
Oren 05.15.07 at 6:40 am
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