The trend in mobile communications is all about anywhere access to your data; on your device, on your desktop or laptop computer or from a web browser. Having all of your devices “synced” has become the expectation for business users and now more and more consumers expect the same.
With all the excitement surrounding the release of Apple’s new iPhone 2.0 last week, one big question is where do I get one? Of all the features that it brings to the table, the one sticks out as being the most likely to impact the mobile phone world; support for “push” email and over the air sync of contacts and calendar items. That is great news for everyone who has an exchange server and wants an iPhone, but what about everyone else?
Apple has created a solution called mobile me, really just the next evolution of the .MAC account. They are calling it “Exchange for the rest of us” but what does that mean? If you are a mac user, mobile me is a great way to get the most out of your new iPhone. But with a PC running Outlook and a mobile me account what do you get? You can setup Outlook to access your name@me.com email account. Using the Windows control panel you can also configure your contacts and calendar items from Outlook to sync with your mobile me account. It is fine for email but less than perfect for calendar and contacts.
The answer is to get a fully functioning exchange account from mail2web.com. We offer several solutions from our free mail2webLIVE up to full business class exchange email. All of our exchange accounts include full iPhone/iPod touch support. Recently, the well known tech blogs Gizmodo and engadget showcased our solution to test the function of exchange sync on the new iPhone 2.0.
With an exchange account from mail2web.com all of your emails as well as your contacts and calendar item are always accessible and synced to your device, any device. You get true real time “push” email and 24/7 live support. Best of all, you can try it free for the first month.
Looking for something to do while you wait for your new iPhone? Get your mail2web.com exchange account now.
Stephen Nichols
V.P. Sales and Marketing
SoftCom Technology Consulting Inc.
Such a nice phone
It is gourges
Sounds great but the message is a bit confusing.
All the way through the article you say it’s free and that all versions of your service off push email for the iPhone, but in your penultimate paragraph you say it’s free for the first month.
So…if I set it up on the ad-based free version I can get push email on my iPhone for a month and then I need to upgrade to a pay service on mail2web if I want to continue?
This is pretty much worthless unless I can upload my contacts, etc…
Since enabling sync says it’ll nuke everything on my phone and I currently have nothing on mobile2web … well I’m not that excited about a service which allows me to wirelessly delete everything on my phone…
Have fun!
Tried to sign-up for the service. But it doesn’t work for me!!! Gives an error after few minutes while trying to create an account for me.
this website is so awesome i love your program. mobile me $100 does the same thing for free with you guys. o m g lol
very good mobiles.we allredy use this phone
Thanks for all the comments. I agree the iPhone is very cool.
I thought I would answer some of the questions and provide some more information.
First we offer three exchange email plans and all of them work perfectly with the new iPhone.
mail2webLIVE is a completely free ad supported webmail only exchange plan.
Our Personal exchange plan or mail2webLIVE+ is ad free, allows you to access your mail from a desktop as well as the webmail and cost only $4.95 a month. This plan also includes a control panel tool to import your contacts and calendar in a PST format.
The full business grade email solution on your own domain and full Outlook integration is $14.95 a month. If you want to try this plan out it is 100% free for the first 30 days.
If you need help getting your mail2web exchange account setup on your iPhone here are the steps.
1.For Personal and mail2webLIVE
2.For Business Exchange
If you have any questions our Customer Support team is available 24/7 to help.
Stephen
My dream is done !
Email aggregator don’t add “xxx@hotmail.it” account … what is the problem ?
This is pretty much worthless unless I can upload my contacts, etc…
Since enabling sync says it’ll nuke everything on my phone and I currently have nothing on mobile2web … well I’m not that excited about a service which allows me to wirelessly delete everything on my phone…
Have fun!
My iPhone doesnt recieve exchange mail until I open up the mail application on my iPhone?
Aren’t you required to have an AT&T enterprise dataplan (additional $15 a month) to access Exchange servers on the Iphone?
Hello All,
I did purchase my iPhone 3G yesterday (in San Francisco) and can answer most of your questions… Just to answer EO.
Att asks you to subscribe to a $30 unlimited data plan. In addition you need to subscribe to a SMS plan, if not you end up paying 20 cents a message. 200 SMS plan is $5. So on top of your voicemail, you end up paying $35/month. I hope this answers your question.
I can do all the registration of the live account without problem, and if I am on the computer I can log in through the web page and it works ok, but I configured the iphone as you said and It doesn’t work, It doesn’t even download the emails after presing the email bottom, so don’t even dream of push email. However It send emails properly. Any idea of why does it happens?
I am from Spain, but as far as I know the service works also here.
Thanks
Stephan,
So if you just want push email only, and want to put up with adsupported email( not that bad i assume), than it is completely free of charge? I could care less about the contact and calander sync, as a have a mac. this does sound like a tremendous deal. i feel like apple did screw everyone bc when they first announced mobile me (which sounded amazing) there was no notion of this $100 yearly fee.its almost as if they insenuated that it was completly free. it wasn’t until 3 or 4 days later after they released a whole instructional trailer did they in fact post the subscription price. kinda bullsht
also, btw, does any one know how quick the push actually takes per email? thanx all
Trying the service now and I am far from satisfied. Sent or received email has yet to “push”
in my dream i will have mobile like iphone
this works with the 1G iphone and iTouch, people. no need to complain about plans
however, i do wish someone would offer free push email. this isn’t truely free, only for 30 days, actually less than apple’s 60. it seems your best chance for push is through your work, if they support it, or deal with only getting your email every 15 minutes…as opposed to right then and there. and if you NEED that, your work should supply it.
@EO No you don’t need the Enterprise Plan unless your exchange server is behind a firewall or otherwise won’t work with the standard data plan. I wondered the same thing and that’s what the AT&T rep. told me. My employers exchange/webmail isn’t inside a firewall and it works perfect with the iphone.
On another note… I believe you can only sync 1 exchange account at a time so I would have to disable my work account if I wanted to use mail2web to sync my Gmail Calendar. Hmm….
Just sign up for a free googlemail account and use that for free, for ever? I’m sure i’ve seen googlemail advertise push mail to the iphone…
wow, nice phone
i just love it ” i wanna it”
were and who is the dealer in Bangalore, India
What is the cost in INR
I really love it!!!
This link will show how to set up push mail to your iPhone.
http://lifehacker.com/398526/set-up-push-email-contacts-and-calendar-on-your-iphone-for-free
Works beautifully and provides a proper ‘push’ email solution.
This is completely free and does not expire after 30 days. There are 2 paid options which offer add-free solution, but you can use the free one for personal use, if you don’t mind the ads:
It is like a cute all in one magic box
Will I be able to accept/ decline as well as send meeting invitations from my iPhone with this service?
So far I’ve only been able to receive meeting invitation and not send on my iphone exchange.
I Love it & need it
very Nice Phone
I LOVE IT VERY VERY NICE
yes, the push mail works 2 days.. then iphone cannot connect to mobile.exchange.mail2web.com host..
Dear Mr. Nicholes,
Thank you for this wonderful service ‘mail2web.com’ - I have used this for years.
Again thanks !
J Fisher
Washington DC
I first heard of mail2web from http://www.e-series.org 2 years ago - when I had my Nokia e61 - worked flawless (except when I once wiped my phone since the server was empty - “Server wins” mistake). Else works like a charm! AND ITS FREE!!! Just got my new iPhone - witin MINUTES I was setup with all my mails and FOLDERS ASWELL!!!!
Love mail2Web! WIll continue to love it - cant live without it
/A
Dear Mr. Nicholes
It sounds a powerful application, but I don’t know how to set up it or download the application..Would you mind to tell me more? Or Is anybody can give me a hand?
Thanks~!
Anyway, I believe it is a wonderfull tool~~
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best phone i ever seen in my life!!!
I think it is a wonderfull tool and it would change our life more….
I have my iphone set up with my work exchange. When I attempted to setup my personal mail2web account, the iphone said I can only have one Exchange account.
Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can get this second push email account to work?
Thanks.
The Good
This is it. It sync all my contacts, calendars and emails on the mobile. I am not afraid of any hard disk crushing and losing all my contacts and calendars anymore. The emails are pushed to my mobile instantly once they arrived at mail2web.
To read emails from gmail account, just forward emails to mail2web account in gmail settings. So far everything works well and best of all its FREE!
The Bad or Not so Good (Not Totally Bad)
The mail2web website is somewhat slow. How I wish it was as fast as google, but google has got more resources than mail2web. I hope the speed will improve over time.
Overall I will give mail2web 4.5/5 stars for no fuss, secure sync on Exchange for FREE.
I am having the same problem. One exchange account is not enough but I don’t think there is a solution. I will keep my eyes open though.
Best phone i ever seen in my life & wonderfull tool and it would change our life more….
Its very beautiful phone than very essential
i wait for Iphone
I love this phone.
zis ’s sooooo awesome, ma wish jus’ came true, ma eyeballs almost popped out when i read it,zis ’s ultra cooooolll!!!
I tried the free version of mail2web and it works but it’s really slow to push my email, it was reasonably fast at first (2-5 mins) but the last few days it’s been 20 mins or more. I send a bunch of test emails to myself to time it. I’m not sure if it’s only the free accounts that are slow but it’s not going to work for me. Does anyone know if the paid accounts are faster?
I signed up for a 60 day free trial of mobile me and it’s really fast - pushes my test emails to myself within 10 seconds. Since I’m only going to be using it for email I’m not sure it’s worth the $109/year. I wish the iphone would support IMAP idle like I had on the Treo, it was awesome and free (after you paid $30 for the email program).
I adore this Hi Tech phone, and wish to have the G3 available for use worldwide.
Viva La Evolucion
it is toooooooooooo gud
It is a wonderful piece of art.
I have a problem,
it hangs and takes time to end a call and start a new call and sometimes the screen is in black out, it rings but can not see who.
please assist
PARA EL HOMBRE DE EMPRESA EL PENSAMIENTO EN ACCION USANDO EL STATE OF THE ART DE LA TECNOLOGIA DE COMUNICACIONES DE IPHONE
SALUDOS
Wondering whether to buy a Blackberry or an iPod Touch… I just need it for mails but I already have a domain name, but no exchange servers, so… using mail2web means that I need to drop off my longtime personalized email from my own domain?? Registering to mail2web means that I’ll be signing up for a totally NEW email?
Its nice phone i want it phone
just i wnna have d phone……
I am eagerly waiting for mits launching at Bhubaneswar(orissa).
Question: how to configure my web2mail.com account on my iPhone 3g? I couldn’t find the serveradresses anywhere on the internet. I tried exchange.mail2web.com but I get an error.
Thx.
Hello JM, did you get a chance to read the following blog:
http://blog.myhosting.com/2008/07/iphone-3g-and-myhostingcom-email-integration-options-incl-free-exchange-account/
Let me know if this helps.
Thank you,
any word on getting exchange 2007 setup on live accounts ??
Dude,
I have been using the free account for about 6 months to push mail2web email to my palm. Got an iPod touch and have also been pushing my mail2web emails to it for about 2 months. I love this service no exceptions!
thanks
Got “miphone” and love it and wouldn’t want to live without it!
WHy mail2web push mail when you can gmail for free???
I don’t get that.
i am from argentina and y think that tehe site mail 2 web is wonderful, congratulations!!!
hmmmmm that’s great..
How do I get one? I have a gophone. Which I have to add money every month. Gets tiresome.
Now how do I get one for free?
Its nice phone
i love i pones because we can touch
it is nice & handy
i know the price of this phone
well first of all it’s such a beautifull hand set and second thing i would like to buy this becouse i like apple techno and they r louching there phone first time in india with finger touch only with lots of new and great features
I have the following settings on my Iphone 3G.
Email: My e-mail address
Server: exchange.mail2web.com
Username: My e-mail address (again)
Password: my usual password
Description: My own
Use SSL: ON
After all these settings, when I enter it says “incorrect Password”. I have entered the correct password many times but still the same message.
Can someone help me out here?
Hi Jim,
If you have a Mail2web Live or Personal Exchange account the server should be set to: mobile.exchange.mail2web.com
If you have a Business Exchange account then the server setting should be:
ex7.mail2web.com
thank you very much
Please use correct English when you post on here. I need a damned A-Team decoder ring to read what in the hell you are all TRYING to say. It’s what prevents you from promotion and respect. If you can’t write and communicate correctly, you are not going to get a whole lot of respect. Period. No one will tell you that, but it is indeed true.
I meant to say that if you are not native to English it is fairly understandable that your English will indeed be broken, however to the native speakers out there clean up your act or you will be treated as a second rate dummy. I really have a hard time with people who can’t communicate their thoughts clearly in their own native language. You sound like retards.
Diseño y comunicación desde un equipo individual y exquisito. Comunicación desde el diseño, soberbia en calidad, perfección en diseño. Producto de Mac, como siempre, destacado en el mercado
ali_alix1988@yahoo.com
This is my new e-mail adress
and i need open my inbox but i can’t my password and name e-mail is truth.
Thank you.
hmmmmmmmm i have a solution wait near railway track when trin comes keep the phone in the rail the phone will unlock automatically after train cross u………… bye
with regards
vinod
Hey Jim,
Please take a look at the following blog:
http://blog.myhosting.com/2008/07/iphone-3g-and-myhostingcom-email-integration-options-incl-free-exchange-account/
It talks about mail2web account integration, I hope this helps.
Thanks
Great great phone. is the iphone and mail2web push service supported in LDCs as well, countries in AFrica like uganda and kenya?
Any ideas?
Many thanks.
Hello Don,
You may utilize our services wherever you are in the world as long as you are connected to internet. About iPhone: I am not sure with which carrier Apple planning to work with for Africa.
Thank you,
great idea, i might check this out
thanks!
thank you mail2web
I think it is a wonderfull tool and it would change our life more….
i wants to know the price of this phone.
i love it
thank you mail2web folks for such a great service. works great with my iphone. i wrote up a comparison between mobileme, nuevasync and mail2web:
http://ultramookie.com/wayback/2008/09/18/ah-push-it/
great great great!!!!!!
I Tried, and my conclusion is that it is not free and not fully fonctionnal nor secure solution.
My grand mother use to tell me, cheap solutions are always too expensives.
with apple you paid 100 box and you get a real solution.
Pls kindly let u know how to set-up to the Iphone ?
Hello David,
You may visit our blog located at: http://blog.mail2web.com/2008/09/setting-up-mail2web-microsoft-exchange-account-using-your-apple-iphone-3g-activesync/
Thanks
“Doug
July 15th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Sounds great but the message is a bit confusing.
All the way through the article you say it’s free and that all versions of your service off push email for the iPhone, but in your penultimate paragraph you say it’s free for the first month.
So…if I set it up on the ad-based free version I can get push email on my iPhone for a month and then I need to upgrade to a pay service on mail2web if I want to continue?”
It sure sounds that way Doug. They should be upfront and say, first month free.
Thanks for an addition to my vocabulary, the word “Penultimate.” I always find the definition of words I’m not familiar with. Thank you!
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“Mohammed Kaleem
September 18th, 2008 at 2:43 am
I think it is a wonderfull tool and it would change our life more….
i wants to know the price of this phone”
Mohammed, If you want to know more about the phone look for it on Ebay or go to an AT&T store. They are only supposed to be used with that carrier although some people have gotten around it. :-X I only know of 1 who has successfully.
Dear Community Manager,
I have an Iphone and as you said to subscribe pushmail, why do i need to subscribe to a sms package ??? why not a subscribe to a GPRS package ?
Hello Daniyal,
I am not sure if I understood your question correctly. Push Mail, SMS and GPRS are 3 different functionalities and technologies in iPhone.
With Push Mail, you utilize services like ours (mail2web.com) so that whenever an email is sent to your account, your iPhone receives it automatically. It also syncs your Calendars, Contacts over the air.
SMS is different than Push Mail and it is between devices. With SMS, you can message anyone that has an active cell phone, they don’t need to have email accounts.
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a packet oriented Mobile Data Service available to users of Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) and IS-136 mobile phones. It provides data rates from 56 up to 114 kbit/s. GPRS is a technology which is changing the present shape of mobile communication. Basically it is your connection between your iphone and your carrier.
I hope this helps.
Thank you,
Community Manager
Hello Michelle and Doug,
No that is not correct. If you get our Ad-Based Free service which is called mail2webLIVE, it does not end after 30 days. You continue to use it for free as long as you like.
If you visit this page: http://services.mail2web.com/Services/exchangesolutions.asp you will see that we have 3 different accounts.
First one (mail2weblive) is free but comes with ads.
Second one (mail2web Personal) is not free and it is only $4.95/month.
Finally our full blown business solutions mail2web professional is $14.95/month.
I hope this clears out evrything.
Thank you
> GPRS is a location feature and let’s you utilize programs like
> Google Maps, Navigation Applications. With the help of GPRS you
> may get directions to where you are going, see where you
> currently are etc
That is completely, entirely, 100% incorrect.
GPRS stands for General Packet Radio Service. It is a mobile data technology, specifically the predecessor to EDGE (which is sometimes called EGPRS.)
GPS, what you described, is a completely different technology and is in no way related to GPRS.
XF,
Thank you for catching that. I did correct my comment.
Thanks again…
yea great speed and reliable for the push function.
however, it cannot display asian language correctly in the web based(subject) and in iphone(content)
ok it do support asian language, you have to login with indication of asian language interface.
I have used mail2web on Window Mobile for long time. It works great and very convenience. I am trying a new toy, iphone 3G. I hope this new application will be useful for me. Thanks, KK
I presently own a N95 and planning to buy an iphone.Are the features and userfriendliness of Nokia,the same in iphone.Is it really worth to switch from nokia.
I need the configuration settings manually.
nokia N95 is much better and smaller
I have Sony W300i & i wanted go for a new mobile & mostly intrested in some music phone which one will be better sony or nokia. Please advise me.
Hello Amit,
Which Nokia you are referring to? Nokia N95
THanks
N95 is nothing compared to the iphone. smaller screen, much worse interface, no decent games or apps, less memory. But its up to you really. Iphone isn’t perfect, but sure beats the hell out of N95
Thank you !
great thank you
increible the iphone, it´s very important and beautifoul the n95 nothing compare to iphone
ok
I’m currently using Outlook with IMAP email via bluehost.com (my own domain). I want email pushed to my iPhone, but still have it sync with my Outlook inbox, subfolders and sent mail? If I use any of Mail2Web’s push email services, will it allow me to view on my phone the same emails and folders I see in Outlook on my PC? If so, which service do I need?
Can’t find real information on using iPhone MAP or PUSH software to sync my email accounts. I’ve searched the site, but keep coming back to a letter from the VP of sales with no active link discussing iPhone and iMAP connectivity. Maybe I don’t know what I’m looking for, but if someone has a iPhone and used myhosting/mail2web and received integrated email on computer and phone please advise.
Hello Patrick,
Answer to your questions is: YES.
All you need to do is to get an Exchange Service from us. I am not sure what your requirements are but you can start with our “Personal Exchange” plan. Visit this page please:
http://services.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail/
For $4.95 per user per month you can have push email for your iphone.
Thank you.
Hey Ken,
Are you looking for this link?
http://blog.mail2web.com/2008/09/setting-up-mail2web-microsoft-exchange-account-using-your-apple-iphone-3g-activesync/
I have a new model of Nokia M90+ chinese made, let me know how this program can effectively work in mine.
Thanks
increible the iphone, it´s very important and beautifoul nothing compare to iphone
It’s a very nice phone
Hello Evans Komollo,
As you mentioned, M90+ is a Chinese made phone. Does it come with ActiveSync? If it does then you can use our services…
This is a nice phone but not sporting bluetooth with other phones this a bed thing in it but it is a nice phone.
Free is very good……
This works great- however, after 2 days of use, I found a potentially fatal flaw-
I am forwarding my work email (which doesn’t support activesync) to my mail2web account. However, when I go to reply to or create new email, it shows up with my mail2web address as the sender, reply-to, etc.- I need it to show my work email as the reply-to.
How can I accomplish this, oh wise mail2web ones?
I’d be willing to move to a paid account if you could support this.
I know I am being stupid, but I have a very simple question. Is this phone free or not?
Hello Tiesys,
Unfortunately iPhone 3G is not a free phone. Depending on your country and the carrier you are using, you may be eligible for some discounts though.
Thank you,
is a very good phone but if i ever need one I’ll let u know
thank you for your ofer
sincerly carmen
Cool looking phone? Gourges phone? I wish I did not buy this phone. With this phone you CANNOT send or receive text messages with a picture, you CANNOT take a video. Yes, this phone looks cool, it’s gourges, but what good is that while it sits in my pocket. I would not have bought this phone if my old phone was not going dead.
Yippie ki ya yea, the is awsome a emterporise solution for start up business man this ia awsome and it great too. I am excited
Jim, if you need those features then get a another phone. If you want video buy a video camera. Not having MMS is not the end of the world, there’s work arounds.