Nokia Email Service (beta)
NES, a beta service currently offered to selected countries around the world by Nokia. A rival to compete with BIS (Blackberry Internet Service), which subscribers would have to get the service only from the telcos, and worst part is, in the open market era like today, only limited telcos are offering Blackberry service worldwide. **kinda disappointed** But, Nokia is heading to the right direction to offer its service (beta) for free for the time being, an exclusive push-email service that allow the user to add 7 emails with one NES account. Configuration and setup was completely ‘wizardized’, nothing much to worry about on the technical information, just key in your email account (pop/imap) and the email account’s password and you are good to go. NES will detect and automatically configure everything for you in a breeze. A SMS will be sent directly to your supported smart phones (s60 series undoubtedly…), you just have to click on the link provided in the SMS, it will triggers you to download the NES application and get it installed for you. (but, makesure you have mobile data service enabled)
Once the application installed, it will start to sync from the email you added in NES website, you can add more email accounts or start using the NES to compose your email, flag your email and etc etc. On your s60 smartphone, an extra line item will be displayed on your active standby screen. (i’m using E71 by the way, and it shows up there) The Nokia Email application will run its process behind the scene of your smartphone, and connect to NES server for synchronization purposes. (Even if you closed the NE application, the connection will remain as a ‘hidden service’ in the phone and triggered your data connection to sync) You can choose offline mode in the NE if you don’t want the NE client to connect simultaneously.
Overall, I would say the NE client application from Nokia is pretty snappy on retrieving and sending out emails, it’s basically an approach Nokia is trying to heading towards mobile email engine like what Blackberry had been offering to its clients over the years. Email sent and received instantly, and multiple email account can be consolidated into one email client application. It’s slightly better than the E71′s email client built-in, with extra features like flagging, emails sorted in group of date received. The s60′s built-in email client only support POP or IMAP email account, while this one will connect direct to NES server for email sending/retrieving.
Well, so far so good. Gonna test the battery consumption while letting the NE application to run its service on my E71. I’ve been using IMAP with the in-built email application in my E71 for months now, data connection in idling mode really does drain my battery a lot even with a huge capacity battery like the one with E71. Hope NE app. will use less resource while facilitating BB’s features for all Nokia’s smartphones.
Kudos to Nokia development team for this great features, without burning a hole in our pocket to pay for the **sky-high** cost of BB services + telcos data plans.
16/10/2008 Updated:
after tested for about 2 weeks, with the following setups:
- 3 emails configured, 2 accounts from my own server and 1 account from gmail
- about 20-30 emails + 30 minutes phone calls + 10 SMS per day
here are the results of my findings based on above setup and usage:
- With NES client app. running in the memory, my E71 still be able to last me 2 days. (network switching from 3.5G -> 3G -> EDGE respectively all the time as my office has poor network connection, and 3G-less)
- Email notification icon (the ‘@’) on the stand-by screen, only appear for emails received from the main email account (as per setup in NES), incoming emails from secondary account will only have light and tone notifications, no ‘@’ show up.
- Email account deleted from the phone will not be able to re-sync/re-add back eventhough the deleted email account still appear in NES’s administration portal
- During standby screen, press to the Email list will get you to the main email account inbox, which is a little troublesome if emails received is in the secondary mail box, have to click back and re-select the correct mail box in order to read the email.
I would say so far so good, couldn’t be complaining too much as it is still running in beta and it’s FOC anyway. But, I’m seriously looking forward to see Nokia shape it up. It’s fast and it does not drain your battery like IMAP setup. (But still… this issue always grounded to network connectivity problem)
The Nokia Email service is a very good step in the right direction indeed. I’m not sure about the cost thought – I would expect this to be a subscription service, when it goes final.
yes,but still alot of tiny miny things to be re-shaped. :) looking forward nokia to shape this great features phase by phase.
Have been using this since I got my E71 three months ago and love it. Only problem I see is that you need to have the app stay online all the time for the push mail to work else, it’s manual sync. This can be expensive if you don’t have an unlimited data plan as currently adhoc data plans in Malaysia is quite expensive and using this initially on 3G, proved to be quite expensive. Now I only set it to sync via my wifi connection when I am at home.
Tip: For ease, I have configured my Gmail account to auto retrieve mails from my other accounts and only sync this Gmail account with NE, thus, I have only one inbox to look at.
Used this mainly to retrieve mails only. Gmail also have the facility for you to send out mail as if it is from one of the other emails.
I have lost the settings for my phone and I tried to reconnect and I cant access any even webmobile it fails to work.
can you please settings for me if possible my mobile number is 0027 8465 72183 and am using nokia xpress music 5310.
emails sorted in group of date received. The s60’s built-in email client only support POP or IMAP email account, while this one will connect direct to NES server for email sending/retrieving.