Nokia Launches New Native Email Client
Wow, this is a nice little find, thanks to DarlaMack.com and SymbianFrance.com. On the down-low, Nokia has put together and launched a beta email service that consists of a downloadable S60 application and allows you to pull in nearly any email inbox and sync with it anywhere.
Somewhat like Mail for Exchange for consumers (sound familiar?), Nokia Email allows you to enter your details on the website and then receive a download link on your mobile. From there you download the mobile client and sign in using your email’s password. It currently works with most emails, such as Gmail and your ISP’s email, but MSN Hotmail and corporate emails are not supported - yet.
The service works well, and changes made on my mobile were synced back to Gmail within a few minutes, 
which is close enough synchronization for me. You can easily schedule when the app should monitor your inbox, so that you don’t get alerted to new emails at 3am if you don’t want to.
I’ve been using the built-in Email client on my various S60 handsets with Gmail IMAP for the past several months, and one thing that gets me is how slow the built-in client is in moving around between messages and the like. This app is *much* quicker, and I found using it to be a very pleasant experience. Also, it’s a native S60 application, so it won’t take 3 days to load, like the Gmail java app does.
I installed the app on my N95-3 and was disappointed to see that it was not able to place a notification on my Active Standby screen, aside from the typical ‘new email’ icon up by the Bluetooth one. However, the inbox is a very handy view, with each email getting one line, and separated by day, so that I can easily collapse today’s and skip right to yesterday’s emails.
The message composition screen, in particular, is very nice. Contacts open in a drop down list, pictured, with each email address shown on its own line, next to the contact’s name. Thus, if I have 4 email addresses for Darla, her name would appear 4 times, with each email address listed. That makes it extremely convenient to choose which email I want to send the email to, and I really like that I don’t have to open the contacts view separately.
It’s free to use while in Beta, so there’s no harm in checking it out.
I too am trying the same since last two days. But even with the setting of Email Notification set to ‘ON’, I didnt got any display on standby screen… And when I checked the activation status it shows me that my subscription is activated till July 2009….. So does it mean that it will be free till then and to renew they may charge something…..
Hey Ricky I’ve been using it for almost a day now and it works good so far. Wish it would tie in with my theme though. And sometimes it doesn’t sync my email for like a half hour at a time. I’m sure thats something that needs to be worked out with the nokia server.
btw i’m using the n95 version on my n82 since they didn’t have a version yet.
As a die-hard user of IMAP in the built-in S60 email client, I was pretty excited about trying this out on my N95-3. So far it will only send messages. I have yet to receive/sync any messages at all with this application. Without syncing, this application is worthless for me.
Also, what’s with the extra “E-mail setup” item in my applications folder? Is there any way to remove that without removing the entire Nokia Email application?
Not impressed.
Looks very good for a start, but as I already have Profimail on my handset it would be redundant to save my emails on two different places. Here I presume that the emails are downloaded and stored on the handsets’ memory card.
As Mike and germ pointed out about the syncing there seems to be som bug / heavy traffic on their servers.
I will however try it in due time.
It is good to see that Nokia have extended their internet services again.
Slow, bloated and has yet to download any mail from my gmail account.
Looks good though.
Mark
ps. - their website is down now so thats not a good sign - it is a beta so expect this.
Mark
Woops, looks like we might have overloaded the servers. It *was* a beta app, so I can’t be surprised.
Hm, looks like someone have hammered their servers too much.
(That’s strange….?)
Well, guess I’ll just have to try again later.
Thanks for the useful info by the way >_ Nokia Photos, Location Tagger, Nokia Devices etc.)
However I’m happy that Nokia is trying to offer a whole experience besides the phone in which they are currently trying.
It would provide better experience for the overall users out-of-the-box.
There will always be better applications with better solutions that users can find.
I do think regardless that too strong integration with the phone is also unfortunate such as the Share Online if you already have for instance Shozu. Then again such things mostly just bothers power users and not the overall user.
(There is this saying - “Users are stupid”)
Nice found! I will try it tommorow.
It’s working pretty well for me so far, but as others have noted, I don’t see any notification on the standby screen when new email comes in. Once they work the bugs out this will be a pretty good program. It’s much better than the built in S60 email program.
It only finds emails from gmail imap if they are in the inbox, until it has the ability to read the emails in the other folders it is useless to me.
I like the use of space but, much cleaner than the default mail client.
All,
This is not a new application. This is a re-branded version of Intellisync. I installed this ‘new’ application and it uninstalled my Intellisync for Nokia application.
Mark
Nokia N95-3 Owner
Chicago, IL USA
it shows the new emails on Standby screen on my E51, but I guess the e-series Standby is more customizable anyway. I really like the design and the layout of the client, much better than the default one. However, I wish they would include an option to sync with the IMAP-Folders, as only then I will be able to access all my email.
But as a first step, it’s already really good. What I don’t understand, though, is why Nokia is bringing out all these new services (My Nokia Backup, Nokia Push Email) and does not include them under the ovi branch. When will they finally get there and bring about one unified login place?
I don’t really like having to go through a Nokia server adds an unnecessary layer
Why could this not be intergrated into the messaging app, If it showed up as a mailbox rather than another icon in the menu ( two new icons if you need the settings part too)
Program seems to work quite well on N95-2, still need to do something more to beat SEVEN in my book.
damn, no N82 support yet :/
i’m trying to setup my mails for the 1st time and get a errors everytime. ‘ cannot connect to server’
Has anyone had any luck setting this up for google app email addresses ? If so what setting do you use ?
J
Can this be used to access multiple email accounts?
Thanks.
Hm. Loaded it, got annoyed with the fact it didn’t sync for download, and even more annoyed that it mucks up the phone’s config (permanently setting Active Standby on).
I’m really disappointed with Nokia’s inability to write software and implement it properly….. and why have they crippled the N95 so that it cannot be configured like the equivalent E series?
Andrew
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