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Cingular phones (not smartphones) with real POP3 support?
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Posted by: haritia

I've searched for this so please be understanding but I can't find an answer:

Which 3G phones does Cingular have that actually have a generic POP3 client builtin? I don't want to be locked into the ones that their "client" supports: I have a work POP3 server I need to get to and another provider neither of which are the ones that the stupid Cingular app supports.

Thanks,

Posted by: celltechy

www.phonescoop.com www.mobileburn.com www.google.com www.gsmarena.com

Posted by: drewyehboi

When you look at a particular phones features on the Cingular website, you will find that "Mobile Email" is included in the description. This application will only support the following email providers.

Currently Mobile Email supports the following email providers:

* Yahoo! Mail
* AOL Mail
* AIM Mail
* MSN Hotmail
* At&t Yahoo! Mail
* Bellsouth

You will have to view these emails in realtime.

To have POP3 capabilities, the phone will need to have

# Microsoft® Direct Push for real-time email delivery
# Mobile Outlook®

If it does not have the capabilities you will not be able to retrieve e-mail when connected and then to view and manipulate the retrieved messages without needing to stay connected. That is the difference. Either way, you are looking at the same amount of data transfer, except you POP3 email client will recieve all emails, even the ones you do not want to view at the time, possibly wasting data.

I hope this helps.

Posted by: haritia

drewyehboi,

thanks for the response. yeah, i bought a bunch of Cingular phones for my employees and specifically shose the ones who could do what they called 'Wireless email' assuming that meant POP or IMAP. Well neither the SYNC not the LG UC500 do generic POP or IMAP. They just have that stupid (I do insist on using the word stupid) limited client they have and not a generic built in one. I know the SE W810 has a client builtin and based on what I have seen, they have not killed that feature off of the phone but it does not do 3G which I'd like to have.

Don't they have any of their non-smartphone 3G phones that have a generic POP or IMAP client? The specs I find on non-Cingular mobile sites do not tell me how Cingular has crippled their phones to keep or remove such a feature.

Posted by: CingyMacGuy

The new RAZR V3xx has a built in POP3 client.

Posted by: netlennium

It does? I haven't found it on mine - just the same stupid Cingular mail client. I can't wait until the modders have figured out unbranding on this phone.

Posted by: Michael95GT

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Originally Posted by netlennium

It does? I haven't found it on mine - just the same stupid Cingular mail client. I can't wait until the modders have figured out unbranding on this phone.

I haven't found it either, and I really want it. It's one of the thing's I've allway's liked about Moto's, both the Cingular K1 and V3xx have it disabled. The unbranded versions of each have it. I'm sure it's just a seem-edit away, but the phones are so new the guru's haven't figured it out yet. I'm sure it's only a matter of time.

Also remember you can check your POP3 mail through the MediaNet homepage. It can't check your mail for you at set intervals, but it beats nothing.

Posted by: rm -rf

So the POP client that was on the RAZR is gone? Mine works fine to check my Comcast mail.

Messages/Menu/Email Msg Setup/
Set Email Provider to 'Custom'
Protocol: POP3
User ID, Password .....
Sending Host: cwmx.com
Receiving Host: mail.myisp.com (My ISP)
Receiving port: 110

The other way (kludgy) is to have a Yahoo account. Yahoo can check your POP mail & dump it into your Yahoo mailbox. Your phone can then connect to Yahoo and open up generic POP3 mail from your provider.

Posted by: Michael95GT

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Originally Posted by rm -rf

So the POP client that was on the RAZR is gone? Mine works fine to check my Comcast mail.

Messages/Menu/Email Msg Setup/
Set Email Provider to 'Custom'
Protocol: POP3
User ID, Password .....
Sending Host: cwmx.com
Receiving Host: mail.myisp.com (My ISP)
Receiving port: 110

The other way (kludgy) is to have a Yahoo account. Yahoo can check your POP mail & dump it into your Yahoo mailbox. Your phone can then connect to Yahoo and open up generic POP3 mail from your provider.

Yep, it's gone; on the K1 and V3xx at least for the time being.