Nokia Mail for Exchange vs. Emoze

I've been wanting to get work mail on my cellphone for quite a while since I don't have a crackberry and I don't want to carry my laptop with me all the time just for checking emails. If the iphone can do it, there must be a way for a N95 to do it, right? RIGHT? (nothing against people with iphones but I'm a little anti-Apple) So a few days ago, I finally sat my lazy ass down and figured out how to do it. In the process of researching on the internet, I pretty much narrowed my choices down to Nokia's Mail for Exchange (MfE) app and Emoze since they are both free, and since some articles have mentioned that SEVEN uses a lot of RAM. I was trying to find a comparison of the apps but didn't find anything till just now: Check this article

I'll try to test each of the 2 apps I have in mind for a few days and decide which one I want to keep. For the record, I am using a N95-3 on T-mobile (ya... EDGE), accessing Exchange mail through OWA (Outlook Web Access). Sorry I don't know which version of Exchange server we have.

What They Do
Both of these apps will push your Exchange mail, contacts, calendar, tasks, etc. right to your cell phone. Emoze can also be configured to other personal mail accounts such as Google or Yahoo, however you can only configure 1 account, so I am using it for Exchange. MfE, as spelled out in the name, is strictly for Exchange. You can tell the apps which folders to sync and when to sync. Both apps are FREE!

What You Need
You will need an unlimited data plan since it is constantly syncing your mail. MfE obviously only works with Nokia phones and only on the E series and certain N series phones right now, but will be available for all Nokia Symbian S60 devices in the future. Emoze can work with different devices that have the supported OS.

Mail for Exchange
What I like

• Sync will occur as long as profile is set up. No need to have separate app open
• Fast sync
• Can open attachments as long as your phone supports the file type for the attachment

What I don't like

• Cannot sync subfolders
• Cannot go to mailbox directly from MfE app
• There's no way to turn off the syncing other than changing the sync schedule in your profile to other dates or set it to manual sync
  

Emoze
What I like

• Can sync subfolders under the Inbox, but they will all appear in the same "emoze mailbox"
• Can truncate emails, and fetch truncated portion if necessary

What I don't like

• Need to have Emoze app open to sync
• Can only sync email from the last day
• Starting up and syncing took very long, and actually didn't always work for me
• Can only open attachments under 100k in the free version

I'll do some more testing in the next few days but right now it feels like MfE works better for me.

Bitching of the Day

I took my car to Glendale Infiniti for service today. This is the loaner car that they gave me. I'm not a clean freak at all and I have only one word to say... GROSS!
Click on the pic to enlarge if you feel like it...

"Who Killed Chandra Levy?" series

I came across this Washington Post series "Who Killed Chandra Levy?" a while back and finally finished reading it recently. This series talks about some details of the Chandra Levy case that was not known before and it is an interesting read. I remember hearing about this case a few years back, but I don't recall all the media frenzy that was mentioned... I think I was in HK that summer and missed it, so I didn't know she went to USC. We would have graduated from the same graduation ceremony if she was alive! There are cold cases that eventually get solved down the line as new evidence comes up. I surely hope this is one of them.

The Washington Post "Who Killed Chandra Levy?" Series