Comments on: “Email is dead!” Don’t quite agree, myself! http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/07/email_is_dead_d.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:09:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Martyn Davies http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/07/email_is_dead_d.html/comment-page-1#comment-259 Martyn Davies Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:12:30 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.co.uk/2006/07/email_is_dead_dont_quite_agree_myself.html#comment-259 Certainly you can see the immediacy argument for SMS vs. email. However, a lot of the comment ignores the success of Myspace. Young people love to communicate via Myspace, yet it is just an email portal by another name. The messaging is all done on line via the browser, but it still is basically email, and you can even get spam. Certainly you can see the immediacy argument for SMS vs. email. However, a lot of the comment ignores the success of Myspace. Young people love to communicate via Myspace, yet it is just an email portal by another name. The messaging is all done on line via the browser, but it still is basically email, and you can even get spam.

]]> By: david http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/07/email_is_dead_d.html/comment-page-1#comment-258 david Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:39:02 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.co.uk/2006/07/email_is_dead_dont_quite_agree_myself.html#comment-258 "I wish someone, somewhere, would start up a mobile operator that actually puts instant email and messaging into the hands of the youth, instead of limiting them to 160 characters." You CAN get email access will ALL mobile providers if you have a mobile phone which has an email client, though you might need to subscribe to a data plan. I've had email on my Nokia 6600 for two years with t-mobile's (old) $5/month data plan; I can get 'real' web, too using mobile Opera. I use it every day to keep track of multiple email accounts. This setup was also very convenient when I visited Europe and didn't want to hunt down cybercafes. As for text messages, every Nokia I've had will allow you to write messages over the 160 character limit of SMS. When you send the message the phone does the work of splitting up the message into chunks of 160 characters. The Nokia message editor is top notch, too: it has a great text-entry system, allows random editing and will even do copy/paste! Lastly, you can set up a MyTmobile account to notify you via SMS when a new email message arrives. That way you know when you have a new email and don't have to check every 5 minutes on your phone. I'm sure other operators have this, too. In short, you can have your cake and eat it, too! But you might need to change phones. :) david “I wish someone, somewhere, would start up a mobile operator that actually puts instant email and messaging into the hands of the youth, instead of limiting them to 160 characters.”

You CAN get email access will ALL mobile providers if you have a mobile phone which has an email client, though you might need to subscribe to a data plan.
I’ve had email on my Nokia 6600 for two years with t-mobile’s (old) $5/month data plan; I can get ‘real’ web, too using mobile Opera.
I use it every day to keep track of multiple email accounts. This setup was also very convenient when I visited Europe and didn’t want to hunt down cybercafes.

As for text messages, every Nokia I’ve had will allow you to write messages over the 160 character limit of SMS. When you send the message the phone does the work of splitting up the message into chunks of 160 characters.
The Nokia message editor is top notch, too: it has a great text-entry system, allows random editing and will even do copy/paste!

Lastly, you can set up a MyTmobile account to notify you via SMS when a new email message arrives. That way you know when you have a new email and don’t have to check every 5 minutes on your phone. I’m sure other operators have this, too.

In short, you can have your cake and eat it, too! But you might need to change phones. :)

david

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