Wireless access to email, phone and other corporate content is not an extravagance for today’s mobile workers — it is a necessity. Push Emails brought us the freedom to communicate quickly with anyone anywhere over the internet. Being the most cost effective and efficient method to transmit all kinds of electronic data, it has become indispensable for professionals, students and for all most every person who calls himself a literate.

Wireless Intelligence published that 2.5 Billion mobile phones are currently in use and the majority of these are SMS or text messaging devices rather than the more expensive Smartphone alternatives such as iPhone and Blackberry.

It is interesting that the approach that vendors and carriers continue to tout to users is that they need ALL their emails on the mobile phones. Users can either register for a push email for mobile phones service such as the Blackberry and receive every annoying desktop email they get in its full glory with its hundreds of lines and threads. Or they can sign-up to other vendor offerings such as Google or Yahoo! with their pull offerings for Smart Phones which download your desktop email view to your 2×2 inch micro screen! Both types of services force you into expensive plans of $50-100 per month and you have to buy a Smart Phone.

Users need to look at reducing the volume and hence expense of the all or nothing model. The enterprise can look at buying a product that only forwards the critical emails to users with the option to reduce the content of those emails down to the key content. Consumers can similarly sign-up to Smart Push Email-to-SMS portals that automatically reduce the number of packets (and hence cost) based on salient content and then decide if that email should go mobile or not.

For many of us, who do not have a P.C and are usually on the move, it really becomes difficult to rush to some desk top system every now and then just to access our emails. Sometimes we even spend our money and time at cyber cafes just to read some important information emailed to us.

These days internet browsing on the mobile phone is also available at very cost effective rates which can easily fit into ones monthly budget.
The features of mobile email that are being provided suite my personal requirements completely. It’s totally free of cost. You only need a basic mobile phone that is capable of internet browsing.

The carriers and the vendors would have us believe there are no such services! All you have to do is look at innovative solutions like the Push Email to SMS solution of Amika Mobile to know that there are great alternatives out there!!