Guest Bazz Posted September 17, 2003 Report Posted September 17, 2003 Just got this e-mail from MSN: Dear MSN® Mobile Customer: If you are accessing MSN Hotmail®* on your wireless device, this free service will expire on Wednesday, December 3, 2003. This only affects access to your Hotmail account from a mobile device (cell phone or wireless PDA). To continue managing your Hotmail inbox from your mobile device and receiving mobile alerts when important e-mail arrives, click here to subscribe at our introductory rate of just $19.99** a year. Here are the services you'll get with your subscription: * New! With MSN Messenger you can now chat wirelessly with family and friends virtually anywhere. * MSN Calendar - Receive mobile alerts for important dates like birthdays and anniversaries. * MSN Mobile Web - Use your mobile device to browse MSN for weather, news, sports, horoscopes and more, to get the information you want, when you need it most. * MSN Hotmail - Read and reply to messages and receive mobile alerts when important e-mail arrives. * MSN alerts - Receive customized alerts for weather, news, sports, stocks, traffic, horoscopes and more Discover the freedom you'll experience by staying connected to the people and information that matter most when you are on the go. If you choose not to sign up at this time, your mobile access to Hotmail will end on Wednesday, December 3, 2003. Whatever you choose, you can still receive MSN alerts***and browse MSN content on your mobile device as a complimentary service. Visit http://mobile.msn.com for more information. --The Microsoft MSN Mobile Team Note: It's possible your wireless carrier now offers MSN Mobile services via your wireless phone plan, in which case this offer is not applicable to you. To find out, click here to begin sign-up. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * This notice only affects access to MSN Hotmail from a mobile device. No subscription fee is necessary to maintain a Hotmail account on a desktop or laptop computer. ** $19.99 introductory offer good until November 25, 2003 when the price will be $24.99 a year. Offer valid for US and Canadian residents only, in country local currencies. Credit card required. Price does not include wireless carrier airtime or data services charges; see your wireless carrier for details. *** Note that MSN Mobile Hotmail and Calendar alerts will require a paid MSN Mobile subscription Doesn't say anything on mobile.msn.com, but this doesn't look good... :-(
Guest MECX Posted September 18, 2003 Report Posted September 18, 2003 hotmail sucks anyway get a POP3 account (is it possible to forward mail from the hotmail account to another one?) :?:
Guest dog Posted September 18, 2003 Report Posted September 18, 2003 December? Bunch of arse!! :evil: :cry: I cannot access my hotmail anymore. I get a message saying that it is now a premium service. :x :x :x :x :x Yes, hotmail sucks, but it is my private mail....can't access it at work on my PC, so the handset is, sorry, was ideal.
Guest McHale Posted September 18, 2003 Report Posted September 18, 2003 are you accessing it via mobile.msn.com or via www.hotmail.com? If you are accessing it via mobile.msn.com, you are screwed. But if the SPV can open up www.hotmail.com and *NOT* get forwarded to mobile msn, they won't know how you're accessing it. Don't have a smartphone yet so I can't check. But, they can only tell by how you enter. -Mc
Guest mcwarre Posted September 18, 2003 Report Posted September 18, 2003 But if the SPV can open up www.hotmail.com and *NOT* get forwarded to mobile msn, they won't know how you're accessing it. OOhh, Think of those GPRS charges.................. ;) :D :lol:
Guest dog Posted September 18, 2003 Report Posted September 18, 2003 Mc, there is both genius and irony in your advice. I am using an XDA (waiting for SPV2) and I normally access via mobile.msn.com. I just tried to enter using www.hotmail.com and succeeded, even though I was forwarded to mobile.msn.com! ;) Maybe I forgot to sign out last time? Sure it won't last, but I like it! Cheers! :wink: Dog
Guest bamboo Posted September 18, 2003 Report Posted September 18, 2003 I can not access my account from my spv from last month!
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted September 18, 2003 Report Posted September 18, 2003 Or you could use http://www.modaco.com/hotmail/ - soon to be smartphone optimised! P Posted from my SmartPhone!
Guest Richie M Posted September 18, 2003 Report Posted September 18, 2003 hhhhmm i just tested this, not a very conclusive test tho :? I can access and sign into www.hotmail.com via GPRS but then i got a 404 error :roll: I'll try again later ;) [edit/] WOW http://www.MoDaCo.com/hotmail/ rocks cheers Paul [edit]
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted September 18, 2003 Report Posted September 18, 2003 You wait till you see the super clever Smartphone optimised version! ;) P
Guest Bazz Posted September 18, 2003 Report Posted September 18, 2003 "]Or you could use http://www.MoDaCo.com/hotmail/ - soon to be smartphone optimised! Think MS'll mind that you're costing them subscriptions? Even if they don't it's not ideal as, depending how it works, it might break if MS change something. It sucks though that MS do this just as the Smartphone platform is starting to take off - it's one of the primary reasons I bought a smartphone!! I appreciate it costs money to run and you probably don't get any advertising revenues from it but why penalise people who use one of your other products for a couple of extra bucks? Maybe the Smartphone license should include a free subscription? Or at least a year's free subscription or something. And yeah I know there are better e-mail services out there, but I've had my hotmail address for years and occasionally I get an e-mail out of the blue from someone I've lost contact with so I'm reluctant to change. Same with my mobile number - haven't changed it once in the 6 years I've been mobiled up. Not a happy camper... :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted September 18, 2003 Report Posted September 18, 2003 Don't worry, the people who've developed our gateway are using the HTTP protocol, so if they break it, they break outlook express etc too! ;) I don't think MS will mind, if they do, they should make a true smartphone optimised version themselves shouldn't they! P
Guest dog Posted September 18, 2003 Report Posted September 18, 2003 Thanks, Paul.......the MoDaCo back door to Hotmail works just fine! 8)
Guest virdirs Posted September 18, 2003 Report Posted September 18, 2003 http://www.MoDaCo.com/hotmail/ is absolute quality... wors much quicker than the mobile hotmail site and I can now check my hotmail from my work pc using this as web based mail was originally blocked by our web sense! Top marks to the developer of this site! Cheers! ;)
Guest bobroberts Posted September 18, 2003 Report Posted September 18, 2003 don't mean to be offensive but... isn't this a little unsecure? I mean can't you use a hotmail address as an for ebay and other stuff as a passport? could someone be collecting these hotmail addresses and passwords? just a thought neil
Guest spikex Posted September 18, 2003 Report Posted September 18, 2003 Hummm...sounds dodgy..access Hotmail through Modaco. How do I know that Paul isn't going to hijack all our usernames and passwords...or sell them to evil spammers.
Guest Will Posted September 18, 2003 Report Posted September 18, 2003 Paul would not do that.. i'm certain of that. ;) And if he wanted to do that, you've already given him a 'probably' more valuable email on signing up to modaco. and you get junk on hotmail anyhow, that's what it's there for!! Will
Guest Bazz Posted September 19, 2003 Report Posted September 19, 2003 It's a good point though. Anyway, has anyone else got problems getting this to work? Can't seem to log in. Also it doesn't throw up an incorrect password screen if you mistype your password.
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted September 19, 2003 Report Posted September 19, 2003 If you don't trust it, don't use it, no skin of my nose, I put it up for my own use anyway, and thought you lot might like it! P Posted from my SmartPhone!
Guest McHale Posted September 19, 2003 Report Posted September 19, 2003 for the past month or so, I haven't been able to access hotmail with my Nokia (shhhhh... don't tell anyone I am using Nokia). Now it doesn't work. I select Hotmail from the drop down and it never does anything. Funny thing, one of my phones is WAP 1.2.1 and it would access hotmail great. My other Nokia is WAP 2.0 and it couldn't pull ANYTHING up that my old phone could. I used to EBAY with my old phone but my new phone can't bring it up. Man, WAP is a waste of an acronym. You guys have *NO* idea how desperate I am for a MS smartphone so I can tell Nokia what to do with this crappy 6800! -Mc
Guest blewer Posted September 19, 2003 Report Posted September 19, 2003 Paul, works well for me. Cheers, Adam And I trust ya :wink:
Guest mattscholey Posted September 19, 2003 Report Posted September 19, 2003 Use www.izymail.com. Its like £1 a month and it converts your hotmail to POP3/IMAP so you can read it in Pocket Outlook. Theres a 15 day free trial. Its the best way to get hotmail on your phone, as you can enjoy all the features of Outlook, although www.modaco.com/hotmail is very good. Matt
Guest Paul [MVP] Posted September 20, 2003 Report Posted September 20, 2003 If you do want to use izymail, Plus members can get the setup fee waived (see Plus area for more details). P
Guest amo Posted September 20, 2003 Report Posted September 20, 2003 Excellent stuff Paul, works fine for me. How secure is this portal though? (Not in terms of you collecting all our passwords etc)
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