The "MacDailyNews Take"

Posted By: Michael Griffiths | Jun 19th, 2007 @ 4:48 PM
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#Jun 20th, 2007 @ 1:50 PM
Rossj
Rossj
blowdart wrote:

Orange used to half heartly do this, if you got an email to your orange account it would SMS you.


I've just had someone at Orange tell me that the reason I can't get MMS is because I am no longer using an Orange branded phone. I told her she was talking tosh, so she made me wait for 10 minutes on hold and then said 'set the authentication to PAP instead of CHAP' and now it works. 

I have no faith in their ability to do anything if they can't even get basic customer service right.
#Jun 20th, 2007 @ 3:42 PM
Michael Griffiths
Michael Griffiths
Fatalism.
Every cellphone in the US has an email address.

Phone that don't support email get a SMS message.

Some carriers send a SMS message regardless; even if the phone can support email.

Getting "(fake) push" email on a cellphone is sort-of simple... you can establish, for example, a Gmail Filter to forward messages that have a selected criteria to your cellphone.

Some cellphones can also reply to the original address.

*shrugs*

It's interesting that Apple managed to get Google and Yahoo! to "hack" (true) Push email for the iPhone. I wonder if Yahoo! is going to activate Push email for all cellphone types, or if the iPhone needed to add some special code?
#Jun 20th, 2007 @ 4:20 PM
PaoloM
PaoloM
Hypermediocrity
Michael Griffiths wrote:
It's interesting that Apple managed to get Google and Yahoo! to "hack" (true) Push email for the iPhone.

As far as I know, there's no evidence of this. Email is just pulled via POP3 or IMAP.

Edit: from the Apple iPhone page:

iPhone uses a rich HTML email client that fetches your email in the background from most POP3 or IMAP mail services and displays photos and graphics right along with the text.

#Jun 20th, 2007 @ 8:48 PM
DoomBringer
DoomBringer
Doom!
PaoloM wrote:

Michael Griffiths wrote: It's interesting that Apple managed to get Google and Yahoo! to "hack" (true) Push email for the iPhone.

As far as I know, there's no evidence of this. Email is just pulled via POP3 or IMAP.

Edit: from the Apple iPhone page:

iPhone uses a rich HTML email client that fetches your email in the background from most POP3 or IMAP mail services and displays photos and graphics right along with the text.


Then pedantic snarky bloggers can all chime in and say that it isn't true push email!  Hoorah for stuff.  I wonder what the time interval is, and how bad battery drain could get with a few accounts.
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