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SEVEN Push Email FP2 Update Coming Within a Week

All I can say is thank you, SEVEN. Since taking delivery of an N78 a while back, it has really been growing on me. At the same time, I never take it out of my house. Why? For one reason and one reason alone in fact: email. Among the many things I use a mobile phone for, email is very much at the top of the list.

Nokia’s OEM S60 email app has always been pretty bad and as far as my experience goes, it has never been worse than it is in my N78. IMAP idle simply will not stay connected. EVER. This means that I have to poll every X minutes. Since the email app won’t keep my connection alive, when I do get a new email notification I have to click on the new email at which point the N78 has to reconnect, download the message body and then open it. If I take too long reading an email the connection is dropped again and I have to go through the same thing all over again to read the next new message.

I get anywhere between 30 and 60 new emails on an average weekday and busy days can get well over 100. As such, the email issues on the N78 make it impossibly unusable. The solution I use (and love) on other s60 handsets is SEVEN’s beta email app but as of now it does not support FP2 due to changes made to active plugin support. Whatever the case may be, SEVEN has just almost-officially announced that it will release a new client this week or next week with FP2 support. Awesome.

If you are an email user and you don’t currently use SEVEN’s app, I can’t recommend it enough. If you’re already a SEVEN user with an FP2 device, keep your eye on the forum.

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