T-Mobile updates mobile internet services, gets around to bringing e-mail on-portal
T-Mobile is updating it’s mobile web offering by allowing users to access their email directly from Nokia handsets. The service, which costs £3.50 a month, allows up to five separate email accounts to be accessed from the handset, including gmail . To celebrate the launch, the service will be free for it’s first month.
The service will allow users to maintain five distinct email inboxes on their phone, and allows SMS alerts for incoming emails. The service will also be able to merge on-line and phone contacts, and update the handset calendar from on-line sources.
Richard Warmsley, chief of entertainment and internet at T-Mobile said “all our customers want to be up to date and involved with what’s going on, whether they be buying a house or organising a holiday with friends, and receiving and sending emails straight to your phone just makes life a little easier”
What we think?
It never occurred to me that T-Mobile didn’t offer this service before. It’s usually quite sharp when it comes to the mobile internet. Then I thought, since Android is one of the phones that has changing the way people think about full internet on mobile, it’s possible that T-Mobile were just resting on their laurels. But there is a definite trend now towards offering an easy, useful web experience on phones that don’t have full-web capabilities. This is a trend that is really going to push the use of mobile Internet services - I just hope that T-Mobile releases this service on more types of handset than just Nokia soon.
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