Nokia Messaging Report of the Week

Nokia Messaging is finally final as per Davis’ blog post and we have another report for you this week, this one from grimsight:

My story

My pal wanted to send me a business card via bluetooth and ask me what was my phone’s name, and I told him I named my N85 “Hackberry”. He laughed and asked me why. I told him and I know he is a bigtime Blackberry user that whatever his Blackberry can do, my N85 can do also. I showed him on the spot how I can get my emailed pushed to me and reply to emails on the go, and all this without an expensive value-added service charged by telcos here. He was very impressed and asked me how I know how to do this on my Nokia. I told him well it is very simple to set up, and also I am a S60 ambassador so I know many ways to pimp my phone. I told him also there is a reason why E71 keeps outselling blackberries and iphones in Singapore, it is just the better messaging device when you know how to set it up.

The feedback I got

I think many phone users would love push email, it is a very sexy concept and many think it will be expensive. That is not the case. They just need to know that it can be done cheaply with IMAP and gmail, many did not explore this option on their phones. I keep my email sync always on over the air and only retrieve the headers, this help to keep data cost down. When downloading a large email with an attachment, I try to log onto a wireless lan hotspot. Like this, I manage to keep within the bundled data that comes with my phone plan. Telcos do provide larger data limits at better rates when you commit to a subscription plan every month.

The only thing I ask is that we get better html support, many emails come like that nowadays.

Thanks for the suggestions and glad to see you spreading the word.