So I’m very excited about the E72.  It’s going to rock, blah blah blah, I can talk about it for hours.  I think it will change a few things for many people.  It looks like your average QWERTY keyboard phone, it will have good email (I use emoze), it will hopefully include Ovi Contacts (but I’ll still download my current favorite IM app called Palringo), the voice quality and speaker phone will be Nokia esqu… great, and it will be an all around solid phone.

Now what I think may change things for people is the 5mp camera built in.  It is not N97 quality but I think people will start to leave their point and shoot cameras at home and start relying more on their phone.  We’re already seeing this but the E72 is the first business class Nokia that will have a 5mp shooter.  It will give people the option to leave their pocket camera at home.  Or in my case leave the N97 or N79 at home.

Do you leave your P&S at home or do you lug around a small camera and a camera phone?  If you do or plan on owning a 5mp camera phone do you think you would leave a pocket camera at home more?  Let me know what you think.

The following post is from Kkndka over at Bright Hub.  He wrote one of the best step by steps I’ve ever read covering emoze Exchange OWA installation and I just had to republish it.  It’s part of a series he’s writing and I’m very impressed.  Kkndka please contact me, I’d love to chat with you Jeb at emoze.com.

Anyway, please enjoy and if anyone has any questions I’m here to answer them for you.

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 find out how to configure Emoze to work with your office email.

Introduction

Microsoft Exchange Server has a component called Outlook Web Access (OWA) that allows you to check your mail anywhere from a web browser. It requires a stable network connection to operate. Emoze can use OWA to push emails to your Symbian phone. Emoze provides end to end security using AES 128 based encryption and authentication.

Read on to find out how you can configure Emoze to work with your workplace email.

How To

Step 1 : From the main screen of Emoze, select Add Account.

Step 2 : Emoze will check for all available account types and display them on the main screen, choose the Office option.

Step 3 : You will need keep the following OWA details ready for the next step – username, password, OWA URL and windows domain name.

Step 4 : Fill up the user name field, password field, your OWA domain which is your windows domain name , and OWA URL. These field are vital and are required for getting your office ail, contacts, email and calendar data. You may need to get some of these details from your System Administrator.

Your windows domain can be obtained by selecting Alt+Ctrl+Delete on your windows terminal. The OWA URL is the URL of the exchange server. It cannot be behind a firewall or VPN.

Step 5 : Select Next and choose the folders which you want to synchronize. For example, you can choose Calendar and Inbox.

Step 6 : Now choose Settings and select Account info. Specify the folders which you want to push. You can specify Active Days which decides on what days the application will synchronize your emails.

Step 7 : You can enable Power Saving mode to increase the synchronization period to save your Symbian phones’s battery life. During this time the application will check for mails with longer gaps. In the Active From and Active To fields, you can enter the duration for the power saving mode.

Step 8 : If you want to specify an access point which you want to permanently use with Emoze, you can enter it under the Settings menu. The Statistics option will display the connection details, so you can track your data usage.

This was part 2 of 3 from kkndka of Bright Hub. Part 3 is coming soon.  Stay tuned to learn how to set up emoze to check Gmail, POP3 and IMAP email.

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.

I have been thinking about the Nokia E55 a great deal of the last few weeks and months.  I was introduced to it back in February at Mobile World Congress and instantly fell in love with it.  I am a heavy mobile emailer but feel the smaller the device the better, within reason.  Not surprisingly I was instantly attracted to the E55 and it’s good looks, long battery life and sheer thinness (is that really a word?).  I am madly hooked on my E71 and have a hard time sometimes reviewing other devices because it’s so hard to take my main sim out of the E71.  I do but it’s hard.

Back to the E55, I have very high expectations for it even though Nokia cut the North American variant.  I’m happy that the Euro version is triband 3G and hope the 1900mghz band will cover me adequately in Southern California and when I travel around the States.  I only got to play with the E55 for a short time in Spain but remember liking the feel of the keyboard.  I’m hoping I can get used to the new style keyboard.  I’m not sure what to call it but take a look at the pictures to see what I’m talking about.  It has 2 letters per button but is set up like a QWERTY.

I think Nokia may have something very special with it if they market well.  I see more and more people of all ages with phones that have full keyboards and I think this is an attractive enough device especially in white to really acquire a large user following.

If you have any questions about it I will try to answer them, just post them below.

I put together this short video showing you how to install emoze mobile push email client on to a Nokia S60 smart phone, also known as Symbian.  emoze is best 3rd party email application (I may be slightly biased because they are a client of mine), they are not just the best 3rd party email app they are also a push email application.  There’s a free version and a paid version.  Visit emoze.com for details and to get the application, or go to emoze.com on your mobile browser to download it directly.

I can be reached with any questions about Emoze at Jeb@emoze.com or on Twitter at @EmozePushEmail.

In this time of economic uncertainty I have been asked by a few different companies how I think they can save money. My answer to all of them is emoze. All the companies provide phones for their employees but they also pay a significant amount of money for push email. It’s something that they have all grown to count on and many of them use in place of instant messenger. They also can’t live without it but can’t afford to pay for it anymore.

emoze is a push email system that is free for a single account, $13/year for an account with multiple emails to access and there’s also a price for companies with multiple licenses. In my opinion this is the answer they’re looking for. Some companies implementing Emoze will save many thousands of dollars but keep everything they have gotten used to with push email. emoze was tested against Blackberry push email a few years back and beat them in terms of speed.

emoze is a great at downloading reading and responding via Gmail, Hotmail, MSN, OWA (Outlook Web Access), Exchange and just today announced their support of AOL.

I use emoze and it is a great alternative to high priced push email services.  You can see a video of it here.
If you have any questions emoze is available on Twitter at Twitter.com/emozePushEmail
To get started visit www.emoze.com and give it a try or on you mobile visit m.emoze.com.

Great news, my information was right, emoze (a client) is launching AOL support today.  That means anyone with an AOL email address will now be able to get their email pushed to their phone for free.

Here’s a portion of their press release.

More than 10 million email users can now go mobile, thanks to the latest emoze data source release for AOL subscribers.  People with an AOL email address can now get their messages and more pushed to their mobile phone, with real-time, secure synchronisation from emoze.
Users experience the ultimate in mobile messaging.  Available on the broadest range of mobile devices, from smartphones to simple phones (Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and more), emoze is easy, affordable and mimics the look and feel of the AOL experience already familiar on a PC.

For those with more than one email address, or avid fans of social communities like Facebook, the emoze PRO version allows users to set up multiple messaging addresses to be delivered to their mobile phone for a nominal monthly charge.  With emoze, even a simple mobile phone can become an individuals communications centre.

Emoze services all kinds of phones from the most basic all the way to the smartest. You can get Emoze on your phone from Emoze.com or navigate your mobile browser to m.emoze.com to download directly to your phone.

+ A little bird told me that in approximately a month Emoze will start to support what was once the most popular email service in the world and is still ridiculously popular.  Along with Gmail, Hotmail, Facebook Messages, most work email, hosted email, and ISP email, AOL will be getting Emozed.  This means that anyone with almost any current mobile phone and any that supports Java can basque in the glory of reading their AOL email on their handset.  All they will have to do is download the Emoze client, put in their user name and password and voila, they will be reading and responding to email in minutes.

Download the Emoze email client via your phone at m.emoze.com and read about it further here.

So in the last few years I have become a bit of a mobile email junkie.  I think I have been doing mobile email for about 5 years now, I know I’m late to the game compared to some. I had a very interesting conversation with a “high up” from AT&T last night.  I was very interested with what he had to say when it came to mobile email.  Now I’m not going to reveal any propriatary numbers but he was telling me that young people are spending a very significant amount of time typing versus talking on their mobiles.  AT&T has a few handsets specifically geared toward messaging with QWERTY keyboards, I’m hoping to play with some of these next week.

Now my question is how are they getting to their email?  Are they using services like Emoze (client of mine) who provides a very useful and enhanced user interface for your email?  Are people using an email client that comes built in on the handset when they purchase it?  Are they downloading the Gmail Java app for use with only Gmail? I’m really curious how people access their email on mobile handsets?  I’m guessing most people just use what comes built in.

If you’re a user of mobile email or you want to be there are a bunch of different 3rd party applications that are free and downloadable. Now I will find out next week at CTIA if any of the AT&T handsets are able to download apps.  I’m guessing they can at least run a Java apps like Emoze has.

Please let me know what you use for mobile email.

Update just before I hit publish: AT&T will be selling the epic Nokia E71 and the rumor is it will run $99 on a new contract.

I want to thank Nokia and WOM World for  so graciously loaning me a Nokia E71 to review.  Now that they have it back (it’s been a few months now, I’m slow to publish sometimes) I am left without a work horse, everyday device.  I have been using a Nokia N78 but there are vast and meaningful differences between the N series and E series of phones from Nokia.  I would really like to have another E71 and rumor is that AT&T may start selling it, if that’s the case I would purchase one without hesitating.  I know the E71 is for sale on contract with a bunch of carriers around the world and if anybody out there is considering purchasing one I would highly recommend it for most people.  Anyone who does much emailing, Twittering, or sms from their handset would probably like it.  I personally did a great deal of reading email and responding to some of it.  Nokia Email has really made the device even more useful.

I’m not sure where this post is going but I guess I just wanted to share my sadness.  Anyways, go out and purchase an E71 right now, you won’t be sorry.  I hope something comes in the mail soon to fill my void, preferably a Nokia E71NAM (hope my wife reads this).