Push email’s best kept secret (and it’s free)
Sign up for Seven’s beta program and you can push the corporate email, calendar and contacts of up to 25 people using a single desktop pc. They call it a beta program, but it is really Seven’s way of testing its products before releasing them to its main market, mobile networks who in turn offer Seven in rebranded form to their subscribers. Despite this I have found the “beta” software to be of very good quality. Their support is also excellent, provided via the forums on their website.
Seven supports a number of mobile platforms – Windows Mobile, Symbian, PalmOS (the old one, not the new WebOS) and Android. On the other end of the pipe it supports Microsoft Exchange of course and Lotus Notes. Not that many push email systems out there catering for Lotus Notes, so this is good news for those of us wedded to Lotus Notes for better or for worse. Seven works in always-on mode, so emails come through in real time. Does hit your phone’s battery life, but luckily the software allows you to set quiet times/days during which time email do not get pushed.
Am using it currently on my E90. Have used it on various Windows phones also, as well HTC’s Hero. Only syncs emails on the Hero though. Wish they’d bring out a client for the new Palm Pre, but in the meantime I use Commontime mNotes5 for the Pre. More about that later.
Did I mention that it is completely free? Get it at http://community.seven.com
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