Direct push on Vario

[Guest ethno]

Hey,

Does anyone have any detailed information on this service?

- Is it only going to be offered to businesses who want to push from Exchange?

- Will individual subscribers be able to set this up, eg. [email protected] or something similar?

- Are there any estimates on cost, etc?

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

It'll come in the Messaging and Security Feature Pack as a ROM update from T-Mob. You'll need an Exchange server running SP2 to utilise it though. TMob may offer a built in service but its not something i've heard of any network offering (due to expensive exchange back end servers being needed).

[Guest minty1978]

i hear that the t-mobile update has been moved back to Q2 this year :)

[Guest rockykabir]

Apologies for this completely noob question, but will GPRS need to be kept on at all times for Push email to work?

If so, Surely that will batter up battery life?

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

It will need to be on. We'll have to hope MS implement it well enough to avoid hurting the battery too much, like MSN does!

[Guest daftveggie]

to be fair...

if you are going to have th gprs connected all the time why bother with the back end expense of an exchange server when you can simple get the phone to send/recieve every 5 minutes and check any free pop3 or imap server

what would 4 minutes difference make to anyones day?

[Guest Swampie]

to be fair...

if you are going to have th gprs connected all the time why bother with the back end expense of an exchange server when you can simple get the phone to send/recieve every 5 minutes and check any free pop3 or imap server

what would 4 minutes difference make to anyones day?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Maybe Direct Push means you don't have to spend money on constantly polling your server. For a company with a large number of users, it's probably better load on their servers etc to use direct push rather than having 10,000 people polling their servers every 5 minutes.

Plus if it costs them a few pence each time in GPRS charges, multiply that by 10,000 it mounts up. :)

[Guest Monolithix [MVP]]

I agree, you'd hope the data requirements are much less for AUTD though, so it'll only complete the authentication when it needs too.

[Guest daftveggie]

perhaps that is true for large corps, but for the little guy who just checks his email, it's not the most monumental innovation.

Not having to restart on a regular basis would satisfy that one!