Mobile Phone Email

There are several ways of sending and receiving email on a mobile phone.

• Using SMS to Email Gateway
• Using WAP
• Using a Smart phone with built in email support

Using SMS to Email Gateway

This method has been available for a long time and is suitable for any phone as it uses sms messages which all mobile phones are capable of ending/receiving.

See How to Send Email to a Mobile Phone for more details.

Using WAP

You will need a

• Mobile phone with built in WAP browser
• An email account that supports WAP Access.

This is supported by most phones today but depending on your package it may be expensive if used a lot. Most major email provides provide a WAP service so you can access your email that way.

However if your email providers doesn't allow WAP access most mobile phone providers provide a free email address and WAP access.

You can either use the email address or arrange for email to be forwarded from your normal email address to the mobile email address (see email forwarding).

Email Supported Phones- Smart Phones

Perhaps the most famous and still the most popular is the Blackberry range of phones. These phone have been popular with business executives but because of their price they haven't been a consumer choice.

However the apple iphone is probably the start of the transition from executive toys to more affordable smart phones which will eventually replace the old mobile phone.

These phones have an email client which gives you access to email like a standard email client that you have on your computer and the configuration is identical.

Email Synchronization

Unless your mobile phone is the only device you use to access email then you  will have the problem of synchronizing the email across multiple devices.

Again as in all things their are several techniques you can use besides software packages that will become available. The easiest is to leave the email on the email server so that it is accessible from multiple devices. See leaving email on the Internet.