Comments on: Email Clients - Java vs Native App http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2006/11/21/email-clients-java-vs-native-app/ Ripping mobility from the clutches of telecom Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:05:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Between Brackets » Blog Archive » Gmail on your Nokia: mail as usual http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2006/11/21/email-clients-java-vs-native-app/#comment-219652 Between Brackets » Blog Archive » Gmail on your Nokia: mail as usual Fri, 28 Dec 2007 08:55:17 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=233#comment-219652 [...] I know it’s not the best mail client, it’s not the smartest nor coolest, but hey, I’m lazy and don’t want to install extra mail clients that take up memory and resources if there’s a decent standard application installed (here’s another opinion). [...] [...] I know it’s not the best mail client, it’s not the smartest nor coolest, but hey, I’m lazy and don’t want to install extra mail clients that take up memory and resources if there’s a decent standard application installed (here’s another opinion). [...]

]]> By: JT http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2006/11/21/email-clients-java-vs-native-app/#comment-41879 JT Fri, 24 Nov 2006 18:46:12 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=233#comment-41879 The native applications for email are very poor. They are notoriously difficult to configure and are generally very slow. This proves that hardware companies should stick to hardware. Flurry is good, but my absolute favorite is http://www.movamail.com which you can download from your WAP or WEB browser. You can consolidate all your webmail (yahoo, hotmail, Gmail etc) on any java enabled mobile device (both MIDP 1.0 - for those that still have them... and of course MIDP 2.0). Its simple to setup and use... and is very fast. JT The native applications for email are very poor. They are notoriously difficult to configure and are generally very slow. This proves that hardware companies should stick to hardware. Flurry is good, but my absolute favorite is http://www.movamail.com which you can download from your WAP or WEB browser. You can consolidate all your webmail (yahoo, hotmail, Gmail etc) on any java enabled mobile device (both MIDP 1.0 - for those that still have them… and of course MIDP 2.0). Its simple to setup and use… and is very fast.
JT

]]> By: Carfield Yim http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2006/11/21/email-clients-java-vs-native-app/#comment-41780 Carfield Yim Fri, 24 Nov 2006 07:35:00 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=233#comment-41780 I will really like to know if there any free J2ME VM for pocket pc ..... I will really like to know if there any free J2ME VM for pocket pc …..

]]> By: Shai Almog http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2006/11/21/email-clients-java-vs-native-app/#comment-41591 Shai Almog Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:09:24 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=233#comment-41591 As an E61 owner myself I have to agree, the Nokia email client sucks and the Java email clients are pretty good. However, Nokia's Java support is also pretty bad! Java startup time on Nokia is MUCH slower than other devices! Even Palm that has a simple and outdated VM starts Java faster than the Symbian Nokia devices which is amazing with their fast ARM CPU. I occasionally do cell phone VM porting for companies and I can tell you as a fact: Java's startup shouldn't be slow... Its just bad VM programming! As an E61 owner myself I have to agree, the Nokia email client sucks and the Java email clients are pretty good. However, Nokia’s Java support is also pretty bad! Java startup time on Nokia is MUCH slower than other devices! Even Palm that has a simple and outdated VM starts Java faster than the Symbian Nokia devices which is amazing with their fast ARM CPU. I occasionally do cell phone VM porting for companies and I can tell you as a fact: Java’s startup shouldn’t be slow… Its just bad VM programming!

]]> By: Guy Rintoul http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2006/11/21/email-clients-java-vs-native-app/#comment-41551 Guy Rintoul Thu, 23 Nov 2006 02:15:16 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=233#comment-41551 "GMail of course only works with a GMail account" ... although Gmail has an inbuilt facility to aggregate all your other accounts, so while sign-in requires a Gmail account, all your accounts can be visible within it :-) “GMail of course only works with a GMail account”

… although Gmail has an inbuilt facility to aggregate all your other accounts, so while sign-in requires a Gmail account, all your accounts can be visible within it :-)

]]> By: Andrea Trasatti http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2006/11/21/email-clients-java-vs-native-app/#comment-41405 Andrea Trasatti Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:41:46 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=233#comment-41405 This sounds more like a criticism to the Nokia email client, than an appreciation of the other clients. I think that it's great to have alternatives and that you can pick other email clients. I suspect that if Nokia had implemented a good email client, you wouldn't be looking out for OTHER clients if not for the curiosity of trying them once. This is what happened with Internet Explorer, isn't it? As soon as they made a good version working well, nobody downloaded Netscape anymore, they had a good client pre-installed. I think there's space for other clients, of course, otherwise we would not have Thunderbird, but I think that if Nokia and other manufacturers can build efficient clients,*most* users won't be looking out for other clients. This sounds more like a criticism to the Nokia email client, than an appreciation of the other clients.

I think that it’s great to have alternatives and that you can pick other email clients.
I suspect that if Nokia had implemented a good email client, you wouldn’t be looking out for OTHER clients if not for the curiosity of trying them once.
This is what happened with Internet Explorer, isn’t it? As soon as they made a good version working well, nobody downloaded Netscape anymore, they had a good client pre-installed.

I think there’s space for other clients, of course, otherwise we would not have Thunderbird, but I think that if Nokia and other manufacturers can build efficient clients,*most* users won’t be looking out for other clients.

]]> By: viteks.lv http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2006/11/21/email-clients-java-vs-native-app/#comment-41397 viteks.lv Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:29:10 +0000 http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/?p=233#comment-41397 Did you try ProfiMail from LonelyCatGames.com ? Did you try ProfiMail from LonelyCatGames.com ?

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