Having left T-mobile and joined three, I have been trying out my new phone. It is a Nokia 6120 and I am pretty impressed with it, although I have found the complaints about battery life and heating up to be true. But I guess that is what you get in a small 3G smartphone. The other problem with 6120 is that the directional button is made of plastic and it has cracked, which is a pain as it looks like it may drop off, especially as my old Sony Ericsson w810i took several drops without any damage and this phone has cracked just from normal use.
The contract I have is with 3 (Hutchinson Three UK) and as part of my contract I pay £5 extra per month for unlimited Internet, email and some other features in a package called X-series Silver. The email is provided by an application called Mobile Mail and it is a push email server and supports and email provider that allows IMAP access (it may work with POP3 but I have not tried).
The email was easier to setup but is fairly basic, even URLs entered in plain text cannot be clicked on, which is frustrating when you get sent a link to an Internet newsletter. However, the phone has no trouble downloading and opening picture files, excel or word files, as long as they are less than 250kB in which case it refuses to deal with it. According the help files, this is to save on data access charges, but I would prefer to make that choice myself. I could use the Googlemail app as it will run on this S60 phone, but I would need to configure Gmail to work with my domain, which I do not want to do at present.
In conclusion I am happy with Three’s web surfing and coverage but less happy with the email application. And I will look more carefully at the next phone I get to check battery life and durability as failure on these fronts makes any special features redundant.
Tags: gmail app, googlemail, mobile internet, three mobile
