| Are mobile emails gaining precedence over text | | | | & above browser, to wirelessly access your |
| messages? | | | | e-mail box as well as register for new email ID |
| Mobile Emails are quickly becoming an entrenched | | | | through your basic mobile phone . |
| part of the modern lifestyle. Earlier emailing was | | | | I personally feel "Email is like placing a letter in the |
| limited to the P.C only .For accessing your emails you | | | | mail box. You can open it whenever you feel like |
| had to depend on a computer system. Thus, for | | | | whereas SMS is like tapping on the shoulder and |
| immediate messaging SMS (Short messaging service) | | | | forcefully giving a message in the hand." |
| gained popularity. SMS is used to send short | | | | The biggest drawback of Text message is that it |
| messages. And the best part of SMS is its incredible | | | | occupies a major part of your phone memory |
| speed and is built into every mobile device without | | | | stuffing it with unwanted text messages, out of |
| exception. | | | | which, very few are really important. |
| The research done in this field in the past 2 years | | | | On the other hand, the best part about mobile email |
| reveals that there has been a steady decline in the | | | | is that your phone memory is absolutely free and |
| use of SMS. The GSM operators have witnessed | | | | unaffected from unnecessary storage of messages, |
| close to 9% drop in outgoing SMS since the past | | | | as the emails along with the attachments do not get |
| quarter. This decline in usage could perhaps be linked | | | | stored in your phone memory .You only get a mobile |
| to revision in SMS tariffs by several GSM service | | | | view of them. Your emails remain in your mail box at |
| providers and the easy availability of free mobile | | | | the server. Whenever you want to access your email |
| emails on the basic mobile hand set allowing users to | | | | on your mobile phone you simply have to point your |
| read, reply, compose, forward, sent and delete | | | | mobile browser to the URL like |
| emails from their mobile phone, the question that | | | | wap.emailatmobile.com, enter your email-ID & |
| tosses our mind is "Are text messages slowly losing | | | | password and your mails are pulled from the mail |
| their flavor with growing cellular base?" | | | | server to your mobile phone. |
| The allure of email has transcended both the fixed | | | | Above all, for accessing your emails on mobile, you |
| and wireless worlds. SMS is simply wireless, and more | | | | are not dependent on your personal mobile phone |
| limited than email.I think the big difference between | | | | You can easily access your emails from any mobile |
| SMS and email is the amount and the size of the text | | | | phone that is capable of internet browsing. But SMS |
| message one can send. Where SMS is often used for | | | | binds you to your hand set. If you loose your hand |
| personal short messages with the size of the text | | | | set your entire information is lost but with mobile |
| not exceeding 160 characters per message, email | | | | email as nothing is stored on your hand set your |
| service can be utilized for sending from a short to a | | | | information is absolutely secured. |
| long descriptive email, with attachment of your | | | | Apparently SMS seems to be cheaper and popular as |
| pictures, sound, text/doc/pdf file. | | | | all the mobile phones have this capability but with |
| Although viewing of attachments is not supported by | | | | Tariffs of major service providers' going up has |
| many of our ordinary handsets but the rapid | | | | actually made it an expensive affair. But for accessing |
| advancement in mobile technology has brought such | | | | emails on mobile one need to pay the basic charges |
| email solutions to our door step which provides free | | | | applicable for browsing net on the phone and that |
| email access on our ordinary mobile phones and that | | | | provides you with a hoard of other facilities besides |
| too with attachments. | | | | emails. |
| I recently came to know about certain mobile email | | | | I feel over the coming years emails on mobile will |
| solution providing free access to email on an ordinary | | | | become increasingly popular with million of business |
| GPRS compatible mobile handset along with | | | | and individual users with access to wireless email in |
| attachments which not only included text and | | | | the world. The increasing availability of wireless email |
| document files but image files too. Moreover you can | | | | support would definitely take over SMS in the near |
| use your existing mobile phone with a WAP 1.2 | | | | future. |