How to Make Your Cellphone Act Like a Blackberry
David Pogue, columnist for the New York Times, gives us the latest details on services available to provide e-mail delivery to many ordinary cellphones. Three new services -- from Google, Yahoo and Teleflip -- can deliver your e-mail messages directly to ordinary nonsmart cellphones. Because I have a Blackberry, and I have a Gmail account, I have an application that downloads my Gmail when requested, but it is slow. David Pogue says that the new service "Gmail for Mobile" is five times faster than m.gmail.com, which is what I use in my Verizon Blackberry's Web browser, but that the new service only works on about 300 phones from AT&T (formerly known as Cingular), Sprint and T-Mobile. The Yahoo and Teleflip services are very interesting, too. Teleflip works on any phone by converting e-mail to text messages, and only sending the ones you specify. Click here for the whole article.