[sclug] phones, photos and PC's

Tim Sutton tim at linfiniti.com
Tue Sep 13 21:12:17 UTC 2005


Hi

For voip, gizmo is also worth a look.

http://gizmoproject.com

Regards

Tim


On Tuesday 13 September 2005 21:33, Bob Franklin wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Neil Haughton wrote:
> > ... but how does one email from a mobile?
>
> Many modern phones have email clients in.  My phone (a Sony Ericsson
> K750i) has a client that supports POP3 and IMAP (and SMTP, obviously),
> even supports SSL.  The client supports reading and sending attachments
> (the addressbook on the phone holds email addresses, also).
>
> It can connect to mail servers directly (mine at the University, via IMAP
> and SMTP) to send and receive email directly (using IMAP is nice, also,
> because it means my mailbox on my phone and desktop are kept in sync;
> although I don't think the phone supports folders - only reading the
> INBOX).
>
>
> If the phone doesn't have an email client (obviously a fairly meaty thing,
> requiring memory to handle the servers), most providers will give you a
> WAP-accessible email account (Orange certainly does).  Also, I believe you
> can send/receive through Yahoo! with a WAP interface, but I don't suppose
> this supports attachments.
>
>    - Bob

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