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Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Berggi, mobile e-mail for us at the lower end
Update 20061123: It seems I can't use the service from Sweden as of now.
Berggi is a new company specializing in providing e-mail and instant messaging to mobile phones. Taken individually it's nothing unique. See e.g. MovaMail and others. Possibly the combination of multi-service e-mail and IM in the same client application and service is unique though.
They tactically state Berggi as a "poor man's" BlackBerry, not that it can be compared 1-to-1, as Berggi doesn't provide integration with enterprise e-mail servers.
From the description the client application must be a Java ME application, but as it can't be downloaded until tomorrow there's a 0.01% chance it's not.
$9.99 a month (US only) is fair, but there are also completely free e-mail and IM clients available from GetJar and other places. The data transfers cost though.
I'll see tomorrow what the service can do.
Commentary:
Yahoo! News - E-mail for Basic Mobile Phones Unveiled
Berggi is a new company specializing in providing e-mail and instant messaging to mobile phones. Taken individually it's nothing unique. See e.g. MovaMail and others. Possibly the combination of multi-service e-mail and IM in the same client application and service is unique though.
They tactically state Berggi as a "poor man's" BlackBerry, not that it can be compared 1-to-1, as Berggi doesn't provide integration with enterprise e-mail servers.
From the description the client application must be a Java ME application, but as it can't be downloaded until tomorrow there's a 0.01% chance it's not.
$9.99 a month (US only) is fair, but there are also completely free e-mail and IM clients available from GetJar and other places. The data transfers cost though.
I'll see tomorrow what the service can do.
Commentary:
Yahoo! News - E-mail for Basic Mobile Phones Unveiled
