A writer over at Bright Hub named kkndka (I’m trying to get his real name) wrote a great 3 part piece about how to set up emoze on Symbian S60 handsets. Part 1, below is an explanation on how to get the emoze app on your phone. Part 2 which I’ll publish soon is about setting up Outlook Web Access (OWA) email in emoze. I’m quite excited to find out what part 3 will be. Anyway read on if you need help getting started with emoze.
Ever wanted to have push email functionality on your phone just like Blackberry users? You can experience push email on your Symbian phone with Emoze. Read on to get started.
Introduction
Emoze is an application that bring the power of push email to any Symbian phone. Push email is a service that allows you to receive your emails in real time. As long as you are connected to a data service, messages are automatically ‘pushed’ to your Symbian phone. There is no need to connect or disconnect from a service in order to download and view your messages. Blackberry users don’t have to be the only ones with push email functionality any more.
Push email functionality provided by Emoze is secure; all data is encrypted and directly pushed to your device when it is ready to accept. Your mails are not stored on a third party server.
In this guide you will learn how to install Emoze and enjoy secure push email functionality on your Symbian phone.
We will be using the free edition of Emoze which has the following features -
Receive and send email
Download attachment of up to 100kb in size
Synchronize your PIM
The free version is more than adequate for day to day usage but if you need to send larger attachments or sync with Microsoft Exchange server at your workplace, you can consider upgrading to the pro version.
Installation
You can get Emoze on your phone using 3 methods -
Download it to your PC -
Go to Emoze.com and click on Get Emoze. You will need to enter your phone manufacturer and model. You will get a SIS file which you must transfer to your phone using the Nokia PC Suite or Bluetooth. Install this SIS file from your file manager.
Direct Download from the Internet -
Using a mobile browser such as the Series 60 browser or Opera Mini navigate to http://m.emoze.com and select Download emoze Mobile client , accept any security or warning messages and install the application
Get it via SMS -
Navigate to emoze.com and enter your country and telephone number. Fill in the authentication code and you should receive the download link via SMS.
Conclusion
Continue reading this article series to find out how you configure Emoze to work with your email service. Emoze works with standard POP3/IMAP email, Gmail and your workplace email using OWA/PC Connector. You can have multiple accounts with each service.
Stay tuned for the next iteration in a few days, if you have any questions feel free to email me or ping me on Twitter.
Email: Jeb@emoze.com
Twitter: @JebBrilliant or @emozepushemail
By the way kkndka if you read this please contact me. Thanks.
AT&T has a secret plan that most people don’t know about and are never offered publicly as far as I know. Most people pay $15/month for unlimited internet with a dumb phone and $30/month for internet with a smart phone like a Nokia E71x or iPhone. Well over the weekend I was on the phone with AT&T and the rep I had was very nice and offered me a great deal. It is $10 per month for unlimited internet the only stipulation is that you’re on a family plan. Now you’re going to ask “but Jeb don’t you use a smart phone?”, the answer is YES. But because I tell AT&T I have a dumb phone they give me the $10/month plan. According to the rep you get the same speeds and she believes (I can’t guarantee) 5GB of data is your max. So bear in mind Unlimited Data has a fair use policy (just like Unlimited Drinks).
This would be a great plan for people who want full access with email (emoze for example), web-surfing and maybe some Qik video broadcasting but don’t want to pay the outrageous $30/month smart phone fee.
NOTE: @brian_stabile told me on Twitter that you may also need texting plan to be eligible for this deal.
A few weeks ago I attended Java One in San Francisco so I could blog about emoze (a client) and got to meet Moshe Dgani one of the 2 creators of emoze. Moshe was nice enough to spend some time with me and asked if in my blogging I could share some features of emoze that he didn’t think everyone knew about. I for one didn’t know about many of these and I’ve been using emoze for a while now.
I wrote about some features recently and as promised I’m continuing here with the rest that Moshe talked to me about.
Add a personalized signature, this is a great feature that I’ve been asked about a few times. As a side note and I’m only telling you this because you read my blog, Moshe told me a secret. Separate signatures for each email address is coming soon.
There is a roaming indicator icon to show you if you’re roaming and may get charged additionally for using data. On Nokia’s it’s right next to the little bow tie icon showing you’re connected to your email in the messaging folder.
There is a setting where you can decide if you want emoze to show you how many unread messages you have.
This is a very cool feature, BCC Alert. Follow me here, if you were in the BCC of an email you got and you click reply all, you are warned so you don’t accidentally send something out you shouldn’t.
emoze supports meeting request responses. This is a big deal for some people, it gives the user the ability to respond yes, no or maybe to a meeting request. Also Windows Mobile users can send meeting requests from their phones via emoze.
One of the nicest features for people who don’t want to be bothered by email on certain days or times of the day is scheduled retrieval. You can set emoze to only retrieve from 9am to 5pm on weekdays if you desire or configure it any way you would like. Maybe you don’t want to get your email on the weekends, well so be it now.
Moshe specifically wanted me to let people know, because he has gotten this question many times. Checking 4 email address uses basically the same amount of battery as checking 1 email address. So people should not hesitate to connect all their email address if they are concerned about battery life.
I want to mention something I have read and been told about emoze that I found very interesting myself. Data usage is very minimal with emoze. You can save (and this is just an educated estimate I read) about 80% on data by using emoze because of their world class compression methods. I was told that emoze works via TCP not HTTP so that is one of the data saving techniques.
If you find any of this interesting don’t think twice, go ahead and download emoze and use 1 email address or 1 Facebook ID for free forever. If you like it though you can get a Pro account for about $13/year (that’s in the US, it may vary in your country). With a Pro account you can collect messages from multiple email and Facebook accounts. Head out to www.emoze.com on your handset (almost all Java enabled phones and smart phones are supported by emoze), download it and give it a spin. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to contact me via the comments below, at Jeb@emoze.com or on Twitter at @JebBrilliant or @emozepushemail.
Great news everyone, emoze (a client of mine) is now available on the Nokia N97. We haven’t exactly had to wait long for them but I am pleased to tell you that it’s now ready for you to download. I have been using it for a little while now and it’s fantastic. It’s the best email experience you could ask for on a touch screen phone and you’re not going to compromise anything. It’s wonderful and even if emoze wasn’t a client of mine I would still use them.
I currently have 3 email addresses being checked, my emoze work email (Exchange via OWA), my Gmail, and my work email from BrilliantExpos. emoze is tightly integrated into the phone so there’s no funny quirks.
Anyways, if you’re interested in giving emoze a test run watch the video below, it will walk you thorough the very simple steps of installing emoze on a Nokia N97.
To download emoze go to www.emoze.com from your mobile browser.
If you have any questions or need any help with emoze don’t hesitate to contact me
Twitter: @JebBrilliant and @emozepushemail
Email: Jeb@emoze.com
Truphone the leader in mobile VOIP is expanding it’s line up to include 11 more Nokia handsets.
They include:
N96
N78
N85 (also VoIP enabled)
N79 (also VoIP enabled)
5630 (also VoIP enabled)
5800
5320
6210
6220
6650
E63
I’m a huge fan and extensive user of Truphone and think the world of the company and what they have done for mobile VOIP. They have fought the big mobile telcos and won. Even more impressive they have provided low price calling/sms for the masses. Don’t hesitate to download Truphone on a Nokia, Blackberry, Android, or iPhone/Touch, you won’t be dissappointed.
I got an email last week asking if emoze has a home screen alert on a Nokia E71. I went to work right away documenting it and decided to put together a short video showing you how to set up the home screen alerts. Also below is the very simplified instructions. Good luck and if you need any help don’t hesitate to ping me.
Here are the steps written out for you:
Menu >> Tools >> Modes >> Home Screen Applications >> Enabled Applications >> Check Email 1 and Email 2 Notification (you can select only 1 if you only have 1 email set up) >> Press Ok. Then back out of there and in Home Screen Applications select Email 1 Notification >> in Mailbox select the email account you want to be notified about >> In Preview play with it and select what you prefer >> Back out of that and you should be all set. Now you’re going to say Jeb it’s not showing anything on my home screen. Well send yourself a test email to the selected email address and when it arrives you will have an on screen notification and it’s better then the @ because you can see it much easier and clearer.
Mobile phone and brand app stores have reinvigorated the internet and it looks like a small version of what it was before the bubble burst. I was just reading Ewan Macleod come back story (great guy by the way) and I’m thinking about his Mobile Industry Developers TV and I’m thinking, it’s back to the little guy again. People are building widgets in coffee shops and I recently watched an interview the BBC did with a developer building his app on a MacBook Pro in his kitchen. That’s it, we are back in business and apps are what’s going to save the mobile industry until it can catch up to where I feel it should be. I just realized it. Apps are it. People like Jan Ole Suhr @JanOle who created Gravity the single best Twitter app for S60 has the number 1 spot on the Ovi store right now. Jan Ole developed the app all by himself.
Janole is a great example of how apps are going to revolutionize the net, yet again. We are going to have a big swing back to guys grouped together in a coffee shop whispering and typing like mad on their computers. It will be like 1997 all over again but instead of being all about apps for your computer that sits on a table it will be for your mobile phone that is almost able to everything an average desktop can. We are seeing a revolution started when Apple opened the iPhone app store. There are many many people that I never figured to be mobile phone app developers cranking out their inspirations. Out of work developers/programmers are finding inspiration and evening and weekend developers are doing it to. We are going to see a controlled “Wild West”. Controlled by the app stores but hopefully open to all kinds of apps.
I’m hoping it gets really wild and that the app stores support their developers who make the stores stores. Give them a good revenue model and give them the freedom they need.
On your marks get set GO! It’s a gold rush mixed with the wild west and we are all going to witness it, don’t miss it. Good luck developers and make us some useful apps.
I am suddenly infatuated with having 3G again. I have been carrying 2 phones around lately because I really like my E71 but equally enjoy having 3G speeds on my device so I have the E75 for that. The other night though I was driving home from watching the Lakers basketball game and nothing was on the radio so I pulled out the Nokia E75, fired up the internet radio and was chillin to Soma.fm in the car for the whole ride home. No hiccups or pauses for the whole 30 min drive. I’m suddenly back hooked on 3G and don’t want to go back to EDGE. I’m not sure what to do honestly. I hate to go thorough the work of selling my white E71 Euro version and buying the white US version but I really want 3G speeds. Anybody have a white US E71 in perfect condition that wants to trade???
Last night I got some great news from a friend at emoze. Nokias newest flagship phone the N97 has just launched and emoze is about to release the touchscreen enabled app for it. I don’t have an exact date but it should be very soon. I’ll let you know as soon as it does go live.
emoze is staying right on top of what Nokia is up to, thank goodness because I hope to be getting the N97 this week or next. As soon as I do you can count on a walk through video explaining how to install emoze on it. Stay tuned for an update of when it launches.
Anyone who knows me or reads my blog very often knows that I have much higher regard for a company when the owner or creator or head of a main department or just about anybody will, go out of their way to talk to the average consumer. I think the world of companies when they will change their product or build something in just on 1 customer/users complaint or suggestion. Well I spent some time last week at Java One with 2 of emoze’s finest, Hay Shteinboim and Moshe Dgani (the co-creator of emoze / head of R&D). These guys are impressive. While speaking with Moshe he told me he’s very proud that emoze employees many of his countries brightest minds and and that he loves what he is doing there. I mean he really takes pride in it and listens to the users and if there is a complaint he wants to correct it right away, not tomorrow and not next week but today. He was explaining to me that he believes it’s all about the user and without them he wouldn’t be where he is today. Acording to Moshe emoze needs to always be getting better and fine tuning it’s application.
I also spent a significant amount of time with Moshe going over some of the features of the emoze app that he doesn’t think the avarage user knows about and some that have recently been added. I will go into those this week in another post.
Anyway, this was my first Java One and I had a great experience. I met some very interesting people and saw some interesting companies. I’ll try to blog about them all.
The point of this post was just to say that I really like when a companies representative, especially the ones that make things happen listen to their users.
Here’s a picture of Hay Shteinboim (tall guy on the left) and Moshe Dgani (all the way to the right) doing their thing at Java One.
A few weeks ago I attended 
