April/May 2007

A 'free' push email system for mobiles has been launched in the UK by Consilient, a Canadian business.

It is said to run on any GPRS network including O2, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Orange and Virgin Mobile, and gives users a single application for retrieving up to five different mail accounts on mobile phones.

Consilient Push delivers mobile email for Hotmail, Yahoo!, Google Mail and AOL. The application also supports any POP3 or IMAP4 account.

Users can download the application on their existing mobile phones and seamlessly alternate between personal and corporate email accounts. The push service also includes photo attaching and saving, with colour-coding for easy identification of email accounts. Other supported attachment formats include Word, Excel and PDF.

 

A Premium version of Consilient Push is available for $5 US per month, offering enhanced features and an upgrade path to a full multimedia suite of content sharing and mobile social networking.

The system uses open standards (LEMONADE/P-IMAP) and is available in a scalable version for mobile operators and ISPs.