Technological Messaging
Posted: Mon 13 June, 2005 Filed under: Geeky, Thoughts, Travel 1 Comment »While I was away, it turned out that having email access from my phone was an absolute god-send. I’ve not used it that much ’til now, because it was easier to access the stuff from work or home, but having the ability to look at it via another medium is brilliant.
As it was, I needed the email access as I got details of my new job through during the week, and there were a couple of questions and alterations that needed doing. And I could do it all (with the exception of downloading the Word document of the contract, which needed an internet cafe) through the ‘phone. It made life a whole load easier, and with a lot less hassle – if I hadn’t had that access, I’d have been having to check daily on my web-mail from an internet cafe, and while it turned out there were plenty of them, it was much easier to do it all when the time suited, rather than getting to a new town/ city, and trying to find internet access every time.
All in all, it turned out to be a fantastic development, and one I’ll probably use again at another time, should the need arise. But use it every day? No, there’s no need for that.
Y’see, you’ll say that, but then you’ll get Opera installed on your phone, and have instant access to google anywhere you go, and suddenly you’ll discover your phone bill is 20quid a month higher than it was before…
The single most useful thing my phone does is run PuTTY, so I can ssh into my server at home and read my email remotely that way (the Series 60 implementation of IMAP is somewhat lacking in its support for things like, say, folders, and it uses *much* less bandwidth to do things via ssh)