Currently pushing mobileme, gmail and yahoo into the iphone.

Any of u guys have any idea how to push hotmail or tmnet email into iphone?


edited as pointed out by skywalker, blackberry still is the better email phone

This post has been edited by rx330: Oct 1 2008, 12:29 PM

So what do you need to do to get your email? What's the delay time? Do you have to check instead of getting it pushed to you like SMS? Can you still get email without touching your phone?

With the blackberry, I don't have to do anything. I just look for the red blinking light. Got light, got email. No light, no email. And I don't even have to touch the phone. Don't even need to take the phone out of sleep mode. Don't even need to take the phone out of the case.

Also, don't mix up autofetching email with push email. They are both different. With the iphone, you fetch your email. With the blackberry, you get the email pushed to the phone.

This post has been edited by sleepwalker: Oct 1 2008, 11:39 AM

er.... i wrote there pushing didnt i?

but the blinking red light, u win, iphone no light.....

You are autofetching, not pushing. I get my gmail within 2 seconds of receiving it on the Gmail server, faster than SMS. Can the iphone beat that?

The iphone is fancy in every way but still has a long way to go to become a messenging powerhouse. I'm also checking all my imap and pop accounts, including my tmnet and streamyx accounts.

This post has been edited by sleepwalker: Oct 1 2008, 11:43 AM

push mail works much depand on the email server setting and the capability of the server features.If Tmnet support push mail then u will get it.

With the blackberry, you don't need to rely on the email server. The blackberry server fetches the email from my tmnet account and then push to the phone. My tmnet mail is being pushed to me, irrespective of whether TMNET supports push or not. That is the true definition of push email, unlike those advertised by ActiveSync, which is typically autofetch and not push.

The Push partnership is made one step between with Blackberry and Gmail. My emails from gmail get to my phone faster than SMS.

This post has been edited by sleepwalker: Oct 1 2008, 11:49 AM

@sleepwalker

Every phone has it's good and bad side. iPhone is fancy, blackberry is good too. You have your choice to choose which phone to use.

I prefer iPhone and i don't like how blackberry works. If you dislike iPhone, simply don't acquire one as you have mentioned, it's not a messenging powerhouse. Apple still has a long way to go and they are making better progress. Greater things to come for sure. But blackberry, any news?

But i'm sure that Appstore applications kicks the hell out of blackberry for sure..muaahahhahahahha..

This post has been edited by davidgary73: Oct 1 2008, 11:59 AM

@ david , im agree with you

I believe we are not in a discussion about which is the better phone. I'm mearly replying to the TS statement of "with the iphone who needs a blackberry" towards receiving emails. That gives me the impression that the TS does not fully comprehend what the blackberry can do with messenging.

I'm not here to belittle the iphone. I guess, you together with the rest of the iphone users, will not hear anything else once you have your iphone. There's plenty of great things from blackberry if you are listening. Anyway, for those of us using the blackberry, we don't have much time to do anything else on the phone. The phone is a source of income and we lose money and business deals if we are doing anything else on the phone.

This post has been edited by sleepwalker: Oct 1 2008, 12:05 PM

i have used the blackberry pearl for over a year and the iphone coming close to a year now.

i must say, with the exception of the pushmail services (which costs a premium to maintain here as opposed to other countries), iphones will definitely surpass blackberries in every aspect feasible.

This post has been edited by nokia2003: Oct 1 2008, 12:14 PM

Very cool then. I'm sure we iPhone users would like to hear how blackberry works. Do enlighten us more on how you guys use the blackberry. We are all learning and always learning.

I find this weird: ''The phone is a source of income and we lose money and business deals if we are doing anything else on the phone.''

All phones can be a source of income and by doing other things with the phone, you lose money??? I have not heard that before mate. Why so?

I do get loads of work done with the iPhone and money still happily coming in.

Ah yes, the pearl. That is missing half the features of the blackberry. We are still talking about pushmail here aren't we? The Blackberry Bold has just arrived here on our shores, OFFICIALLY and not underwater/smuggled... (that's something iphones will not surpass). The blackberry isn't made for fancy multimedia but it is still hard to comprehend that the iphone will beat the Bold in every aspect feasible.

For us using blackberries, cost of service is not an issue, otherwise we would be using the iphone.

Anyway, again, we are going off topic. We can read for ourselves the thousands of BB vs Iphone debates online. It will never end.

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Added on October 1, 2008, 12:25 pmWe don't have time. Does a company CEO who works 12-16 hours a day, have the time to watch video on his tiny phone while his wall size plasma TV awaits him at home? Why his driver is driving him back from work at night, the day has not ended yet as we are still replying emails and doing deals with the other side of the world that has just woken up to another brand new day.

I'm talking about time. Not the phone. There is just so much time in a day and not enough to fully use the phone for anything else.

This post has been edited by sleepwalker: Oct 1 2008, 12:25 PM

Anyway, let's stop then. Debate is not the right thing to do here. Leave it out. Hope rx330 find more answers.

Have a good holiday and Selamat Hari Raya to all Muslime forumers here.

Cheers

*Btw, i'm a CEO and a musician.

This post has been edited by davidgary73: Oct 1 2008, 12:31 PM

well, i did use the blackberry curve simultaneously with my iphone (after the pearl), but IMHO still not up to my personal satisfaction. hence decided to sell both the pearl and curve off to move away from the blackberry series.


added: but at least i'm glad that we don't get any jacka$$es comments by blackberry users on "why there isn't any video calling feature despite being a 3G phone?". i'm sure that we have a common ground there.

This post has been edited by nokia2003: Oct 1 2008, 01:04 PM

Yeap.. SELAMAT HARI RAYA everybody. Today is not the day to start a debate.

sleepwalker, mine push wor, not fetch
i tested b4, instant like sms. But to make it clear, tat was through mobileme

for yahoo and gmail i din try yet, but according to a yahoo fren user of mine, he says instant as well

so any idea to do hotmail and tmnet acc through the iphone?

the tmnet account is definitely do-able (by entering the relevant information found on their website) as i have tried to fix a dude's iphone before and saw his streamyx account being synchronised.

for hotmail, you will need to pay a premium price for that feature.

hmmm.... how premium is premium? how come i dunno hotmail can pay one?

i found one, izymail, but hor.. need registration, and hor... during registration have to give out hotmail password.... my lampahchis also shrink....

@ rx330


kindly check their website for more information.


anything that falls within the usage of third party applications will be out of hotmail's responsibility.

yaloh later you'll find you finally able to push your hotmail but there's no mail to push anymore cause izymail accessed your account and deleted all your emails...