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To Rory and Richard, there’s no call to take a high and mighty attitude with your responses. Julian’s question was earnest, and as the discussion developed (despite your attempt to quash it) many interesting facets to the technology were revealed (God is in the details). Not only were the more obvious benefits of the interrupt model provided, such as lower network utilization and receiving messages sooner, but details that are not inherent in the interrupt model were also revealed, such as lower telephone bills (which depends upon the billing model) and longer battery life. We also learned that there are both proprietary and standard methods of achieving push mail. We learned that the impact isn’t only on the wireless network, but also on authentication servers and on log files. We see that different people use the service differently, and that some people like push mail and some don’t.

I think it was a valuable conversation. Let’s continue to encourage curiosity and education. We were all newbies once, even if like me (it’s been over 30 years) it’s hard to remember when. Even experts are still students (or should be).

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I think you will find that the most effective real time communication we have is the telephone.

If you have something to communicate that is urgent, then it is often far better to do it via voice than text. Do you really think effective people spend all day responding to urgent emails? This is one of the ultimate time wasting problems the “modern” workplace has – Itchy trigger fingers of people who mistake activity for for achievement. Real-time is really best done in real-time. Push-email is a small market idea that has morphed into mass market to display status among peers:”look how busy/important i am”, like mobile phones in the ’80′s; Not because people need it to be more effective.

For the urgent and important using your voice or actually talking face to face is best. That, is a fact.

As for those who require the latest and greatest in a vain attempt to look cool by increasing your visual status (trust me, you ain’t fooling anyone…), surely your time would be better spent learning a little self discipline and creating some real action as opposed to simply adding to the noise that so distracts the rest of us trying to actually do something.

You realize that some people’s jobs involve communicating in real time? You’re so called “fact” is not a fact at all. Some of us do real work via email.

Just because you sit in a cube all day producing TPS reports, doesn’t mean the rest of us are.

I had a Blackberry 8700 and replaced it with a Samsung Blackjack from Cingular. Blackberry would push my POP/IMAP accounts, the Blackjack wouldn’t. I thought unboxing the Blackjack and finding a bonus battery was a boon, but it was a foreboding sign.

I set my Blackjack to check three IMAP email accounts every 15 minutes. If I didn’t receive/make any calls, my phone died in a day and a half. If I made one 20 minute call, my standby time was less than 24 hours.

Took the Blackjack back and traded for a Blackberry Pearl. Three days standby with about an hour of talk time per day (and in a smaller phone.)

Turn off the 2 minute check and get back in control of your day. Good Grief!

So, there really is no reason for proprietary push email services. The open standard approach does exactly the same thing, and you can use it with just about every ISP or hosted email service.

Currently (ie. until the iPhone comes out), I’m using Chatteremail for the Treo. My desktop email (running on a Mac of course) and my mobile email are exactly the same, as both point to the same IMAP account. As soon as I receive an email, it appears instantly on both my Mac and my Treo. If I reply on my Treo, the reply is available in the Sent folder on both my Mac and my Treo, and the original message is flagged as “replied” on both. Both use the same address book, and since I use server side spam filtering, email on both devices is clean. This technology has been around for years and years, using open standards. So, if you don’t want to use Blackberry, you’re not missing anything.

.Mac email seem to be a passing thought in Steve Jobs’ keynote. That seemed odd to me.

Also, polling a POP server every 5 seconds would create a log entry for each check of your account. That would create quite a large log file at the end of a day. :)