Emoze Pro Goes Free, Brings Push Messaging Sans Subscription for 5800ers

Chances are you haven’t heard of this little app till now, as was the case with us till today. Emoze is an alternative to Nokia Messaging, offering push email and messaging services to Nokia devices. It used to be a paid service till yesterday but they just made it free and honestly it’s a steal.

Emoze supports popular e-mail services of Gmail, Hotmail, ISP email accounts, and support for outlook and OWA corporate email. Further it even supports Nokia messaging. That covers like the complete spectrum of email services atleast for the corporate clients. Now, hit on the read button to learn more about this service and how it fares on our 5800s:

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In case you wanna know the full feature set available on the symbian version of this app, we are listing this official feature list:

Apart from Rich HTML support, and PUSH email, the full version of Emoze also has:

• Configure multiple accounts on a single handset
  • Outlook
  • Gmail
  • Hotmail
  • Facebook messaging
  • Your own home or ISP email account
  • OWA Corporate email
• Manage all your email accounts on the GO
  • Send and receive email
  • Reply, forward and save to drafts
  • Receive, View, Send and Download attachments up to 2MB
• Each email account is identified by its own icon.
• Each email account has its own inbox
• Create folders and save mail from any account to a folder

And here is the changelog of the latest version 2.03.7 with new symbian features included:

1 Push Content –
1.1 All users get Push Content by default with next update
1.2 Push content includes Weather, Breaking News and Sport Updates
1.3 This is in addition to the Football updater.

2 Total HTML support (was not supported for some of the higher end Nokia phones – E97/5800/X6)
2.1 Retain format when using Reply/Forward
2.2 Supports embedded images/tables/rich media text
2.3 Much better user experience, more friendly

3 New Shortcuts – easy to see on menu/easy to use
3.1 In general, the shortcut menus are easier to use as they are right there on the menu
3.2 Just press the number shown:
3.2.1 [1] Reply to sender
3.2.2 [2] Reply all
3.2.3 [3] Forward
3.2.4 [4] View in HTML
3.2.5 [5] Delete
3.2.6 [6]View Attachments]
3.2.7 [9] Change to Read/Unread
3.2.8 [7] Download Images
3.2.9 [*] View message details

4 View menu
4.1 Supports message preview of either in 1 line or 2 lines
4.2 Enables user to hide header fields (To/CC) to increase viewing area on screen of mobile device – both in read and compose message

5 Support for BCC – this one is very important!
5.1 Now can send blind copy
5.1 BCC alert to make user aware that they are BCC (if you are BCC’d and reply to message alerts that you were not in the obvious recipients)

6 Support downloading larger Attachments
6.1 All MS Office documents up to 6MB
6.1 Jpeg and PDF – 4MB – all other – 3MB
6.2 Emoze supports download attachments to phone/memory card

7 Ability to add a contact from email header to native address book directly
7.1 Choose add new contact or update existing
7.1 New contact adds all data, update just changes email address
7.1 Do not synch contacts and calendar
7.2 Ability to respond to calendar invites with accept/decline/tentative and edit

8 Supports Google Contacts and Calendar – supports all fields
8.1 Respond to calendar,(not able to invite or open event description from Google calendar)
8.2 Social Media – (Facebook/Hi5) syncs all friend in a virtual mode (have access to all friends via the mobile device but the names are not stored in the phone’s memory)

9 Text to Speech – emoze supports this feature if it is native on the mobile device

10 Signature – ability to make a customized signature (default is sent by emoze question whether this default is replaced? –YES)

11 Ability to select how the push functionality connects
11.1 Possible to connect either via WiFi (free) or Cellular Network (2g, 3G)
11.1 In supported devices, set up priorities for Access Point letting the mobile device find the best connection given each circumstance, so users can give the Wi-Fi higher priority than 3G connection.

Now that’s quiet an exhaustive feature list and we are definitely impressed.

What we like?

1. It’s FREE
2. Impressive feature list

What we don’t like?

1. Full password is shown as we enter (no attempt to hide the password), exposing the password to onlookers (third screenshot)
2. Bugs with Compose Email window (characters were shown as empty boxes as can be seen in the fourth screenshot)

Verdict

Emoze is a welcome addition to the symbian community with its free push-messaging service. This adds one of the top requested feature of push-email support to symbian devices and since its a free service, a larger community of users can now use this service. Though it has a few bugs (we listed above), we are sure they will be fixed soon and users can enjoy seamless push-messaging service on their 5800s.

Emoze can be downloaded for free from Emoze.com (desktop browser) or m.Emoze.com(mobile browser).