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Free Blackberry Alternative

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It's a sheer myth that only Blackberry offers push mail service, and you have

to go through lot of hassles to get it activated on your smart phone. In this

article we will take you through a 10-minute exercise after which your smart

phone will become push mail ready without requiring you to pay a single penny.

All you need is a mobile phone with GPRS and an inbuilt mail client. Any

standard phone today comes with these features.

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Mail account can be a Gmail or a Hotmail account or it can be any Exchange or

Lotus Notes account provided it gives web-based access. Most Exchange or Lotus

Notes



deployments today have this feature enabled.

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Go to emoze.com, and click on

'Get emoze Now!'. Select type of mail account you have, Gmail, Hotmail or

Web Access 'Push my Office'. We tried with 'Push my Office'.
In case of 'Push my Office', in

the next screen, the site will ask you to select between Outlook or Lotus

Notes. We went with Outlook.
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Emoze only works with Exchange

accounts that provide Web access. Click on 'Yes' if you can access your

Outlook account on the Web.
Now the system will ask you to

select your phone. First select the brand from the first drop down and then

select the model from the second dropdown and then proceed.




How you would like to get the

software -through PC, SMS or WAP? Click on 'SMS', and you will receive a

link as an SMS. Click on it to download and install the software to your

phone.
A screen will open up on your

phone. Select 'Push My Office' and proceed. On the second screen, select the

option that says 'OWA' and click on 'Next' to proceed.




Now fill in your username and

password for the email account. The username is the e-mail id without @ and

domain name.
Here type in your mail domain

name, e.g. if your mail id is abc@xyz.com, then this will will be xyz.com.

In the second field put in the Web address of your mail server.




Enable all folders you want to

synchronize with. By default 'Inbox' is selected and you can't deselect it.

Other folders can be selected or deselected as per your need.
Everything is done. Just let the

application once connect to your mail account and synchronize, which will

hardly take 2 minutes. Now your device is ready to receive push mails.
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