Mobile e-mail market heats up

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: KEITH SHAW ON WIRELESS COMPUTING
DEVICES
06/09/05
Today's focus: Mobile e-mail market heats up

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Today's focus: Mobile e-mail market heats up

By Keith Shaw

An announcement from a rival company may put some pressure on
Research in Motion and its BlackBerry platform in the world of
mobile e-mail.

Good Technology last week announced a carrier deal with Cingular
Wireless, in which Cingular plans to offer the GoodLink service
on a Palm One Treo 650 device and the Siemens SX66 Pocket PC
device. The Treo 650 includes access to Cingular's EDGE wireless
data network for faster e-mail, attachment downloads and Web
browsing, Cingular says.

The Siemens SX66 Pocket PC includes an Intel 400 MHz processor
and includes the Windows Mobile operating system and a slide-out
keypad. Cingular says that GoodLink customers will also be able
to connect to their e-mail while overseas with these two
quad-band devices.

The GoodLink service provides continuous two-way wireless
synchronization of Microsoft Outlook functions, including
e-mail, calendar, contacts, notes and tasks, Good says. Other
features include FIPS- (Federal Information Processing
Standard-) certified security (including AES data encryption),
over-the-air device provisioning, and its "Zero-IT-Touch"
activation and third-party application upgrade technology.

Cingular plans to sell GoodLink as an end-to-end service for
$44.99 per month for unlimited data, along with a qualified
voice plan, the company says. Customers must also buy a $1,500
one-year Starter Pak and one-time $99 per user GoodLink Client
Access license, in addition to the devices supported ($399 for
the Treo 650 and $499 for the Siemens SX66). The Starter Pak
includes one full year of IT support from Good Technology, as
well as "enterprise-grade support" from Cingular's business
customer care group. More details on the announcement are
available at <http://www.cingular.com/goodlink>.

The Good announcement comes on the heels of the Nextel/Visto
announcement, in which Nextel said it plans to provide its
Mobile Email Enhanced service (via Visto's ConstantSync
technology) that offers real-time access to a user's e-mail,
contact lists and calendar items. The Nextel service will work
on new Java-based Nextel phones, including the Motorola i605,
i335 and i275. (See <http://www.networkworld.com/nlmobile2475>
for more about the Nextel/Visto announcement.)

With more devices available for real-time wireless mobile e-mail
access, it should be interesting to see whether customers who
already use BlackBerry devices will be tempted to make the
switch to a different device and service, or whether RIM comes
out with some additional features or device capabilities. The
company has announced the BlackBerry Connect program, which aims
to add BlackBerry functionality on different devices.

For example, RIM recently announced the availability of
BlackBerry Connect on Sony Ericsson's P910i device, which Globe
Telecom plans to release in the Philippines for its customers.
In addition, Singapore Telecommuincations (SingTel) announced
the P910i for its customers in Singapore.

Features include push-based wireless e-mail, wireless
reconciliation and attachment viewing through the BlackBerry
Enterprise Server, and the BlackBerry Internet Service. The
P910i device includes support for voice calls, text and picture
messaging, e-mail and a PDA organizer. It has a camera phone
(with video recorder capabilities), a 262,000-color touch
screen, and uses the Symbian OS version 7.0 operating system and
the UIQ user interface.
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To contact: Keith Shaw

Keith Shaw is Senior Editor, Product Testing, at Network World.
In addition, he writes the " Cool Tools
<http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/cooltools.html> "
column, which looks at gizmos, gadgets and other mobile
computing devices.

You can reach Keith at <mailto:kshaw@nww.com>.
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