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3G Phones and E-mail?

Posted by Cliff on from the many-devices-one-address dept.

SendItAllToOneAddress asks: "With the advent of the faster cellular phone networks, and an apparent lack of support for WAP among many popular web portals, I'm curious if the readers of Slashdot have a preferred way to retrieve e-mail by phone via Webmail or POP3 access, or are we stuck with the accounts provided by the cell services? I'd prefer not to have to use separate e-mail accounts, or to have to forward my e-mail to the cell phone."

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  1. Treo by Zack · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My 3G "phone" is a Handspring Treo 300. Since it runs any PalmOS app I have my choice of email clients, many of which support POP3 etc.

    This combination of cell phone, PDA, and wireless internet (ssh, pop, web, and even VNC!) is perfect for me. The sprint PCS plas rock. I'm actually posting from it right now!

    My previous was an i85s, which supported SMS with an email to ssh gateway. I wrote a little perl script to forward mail only from people on a preapproved list. That was so painful compared to my Treo.

    I got it for Christmas and I just can't put it down!

  2. Mine isn't G3 but I can use POP by chrisseaton · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have a non G3 phone (an old Sony J5) but it supports email with the POP3 protocall, which I've simply tied to a normal email account.