If you are jealous of Blackberry owners’ ability to always, always, ALWAYS be working and to never be more than a pocket vibration away from the next urgent office memo (or if you just like getting emails from your mates when you are out and about) you might want to take a look at BlueWhaleMail.
BWM is a free push email service that runs on most Java-capable mobile phones. With push email, you never have to go and check to see if you have any email waiting for you - the email app will do it for you and just let you know when something new pops up.
Of course when we say free we mean that the app is free to download and use - it is supported by banner ads above your mail - but you still have to cover the cost of having an email app check your mail server every couple of minutes.
This can work out quite expensive if you don’t have an ‘all you can eat’ data plan. Unusually (and commendably) BWM have gone to some lengths to show you how much using their service will actually cost you, and to recommend reasonable data packages from a variety of providers. For example, a light user (2-3 emails per day) can expect to use up about 9MB of data per month. A heavy user (50-100 emails per day) will use up to 50MB per month. If you were on a typical PAYG SIM this could cost around £143.
Signup is pretty simple, with a java applet on the BWM site doing most of the legwork. BlueWhaleMail is available here.
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