Helio First Carrier to Offer Push POP/IMAP Email

I meant helio Not alltel. Well anything helio has it would naturally have it from sprint since they the Sprint PCS network.

Same service? 🤨 The slashphone article in the parent describes a simple email client made by SEVEN and offered by sprint, which has the ability to handle multiple email accounts. There's absolutely nothing "push" about that.

Helio's Ultimate Inbox now offers push on all POP/IMAP email accounts and Gmail, Yahoo!, AOL and Windows Live/Hotmail accounts. Not pull, timed or otherwise, but actual push.

BlackBerry offers a similar service, but you have to use RIM's middleware servers (and pay additional service fees to do so).

Blackberry still has this service, so why would they say helio is the first? the first to offer it for free maybe, but not simply the first.

It's really push email. Not timed pull...

check this:

http://www.fiercewireless.com/node/8066 »

4th paragraph down, 3rd sentence:

The option to enable push mail notification to automatically synchronize the user's mailbox whenever a new message arrives.

Whatever you want to call it, the end user gets the email as soon as it's on the server.

If you continued to read the article. You would see it breaks down the features for you which state "PUSH" damn some people just don't read. Helio is a sprint MVNO, any service they offer they could not offer with out sprint first already offering it.

Like GPS-enabled Google Maps? Or Buddy Beacon? Or MySpace Mobile? Or GPS-tagging uploaded pictures and videos? Or upload to YouTube and Flickr, period? Etc.

All of these are things Helio had before anyone else, including Sprint. Many remain Helio exclusive.

Nice try, though 🙂

Ok the point is Helio was'nt the first to offer this service Point Blank. I have been getting push e-mail for 6 months and this has been availible on sprint almost before helio was even a MVNO. And besides who uses helio anyway?? So this news update is pretty meaningless. Because anyone who even cares about push e-mail would not have helio as a carrier.

Willie_Esco29 said:
And besides who uses helio anyway?? So this news update is pretty meaningless. Because anyone who even cares about push e-mail would not have helio as a carrier.

i do, been pretty pleased with it, at least i don't get raped for data charges from verizon or at&t, and i don't have to pay extra to get my push email 🙂

Well I never get raped for data charges from sprint. I have the simply everything plan and have unlimited everything. And don't pay extra for my push mail.

ried said:
Like GPS-enabled Google Maps?

Telenav (Sprint Navigation) - Better IMO

ried said:
Or Buddy Beacon?

Sprint Family Locator/Boost "Where you at?"

ried said:
Or MySpace Mobile?

m.myspace.com (can be accessed from most carriers...)

ried said:
Or GPS-tagging uploaded pictures and videos?

what's the point? if I take a photo, and wait till I get home to upload then all my pix have my home address as the tag...

ried said:
Or upload to YouTube and Flickr, period? Etc.

Most of the samsungs (since the A920 and earlier) and other phones had the "Post to S...
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some of your comparisons don't really match: 1)helio has an exclusive myspace app which has more functionality then the mobile website 2)just cause a few samsungs support uploading function doesn't mean the carrier has created a streamlined, universal application 3)family locator doesn't provide the same functionality as buddy beacon.

you sound a little bit like a helio hater in your post. just admit, they have come out with some cool features.....not saying that other carriers haven't as well, but helio has done some innovating.

dmichelr said:
2)just cause a few samsungs support uploading function doesn't mean the carrier has created a streamlined, universal application

It's pretty easy to have only FOUR devices have the same software on it, especially since most of the current phones are made by Samsung and use the same back-end software as the old Sprint Samsungs to do this.
When you have 30+ phones with more than 20 of them capable of picture sending, made by 6 or 7 different manufacturers it's a little harder to have a "universal" picture posting service. (Which wasn't even used that much and is why it's not all over the lineup.)

dmichelr said:
3)family locator doesn't provide the same functionality as

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I could not have said it better monkeyracer. And to further show that helio uses simular features of Sprint Mostly and some of verizon check out there $99 unlimited plan does it look familar (i.g. Simply Everything Plan)

http://www.helio.com/page?p=plan_comp& »

Notice how they compare there $99 plan to the other providers except for sprint I wonder why Hmmmmmm......?????