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Originally Posted by quiet
i ordered a treo 650 yesterday. i'm still not sure it's the right choice. i also like the blackberry, but it doesn't have 128 bit browser encryption, which i need to do online banking.
i've read about the push thing, but i still don't understand how it differs from the way treo email works. could you please elaborate?
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Hey quiet,
the difference basically is that the TREO does what you call "Polling" for E-mail and "Pulling". This can be accomplished in two ways. Lets use AOL for example.
If I am not signed on to AOL...I will not be aware that I have an E-mail until I log-in using my username and password to check. The TREO "Polls" in pretty much the same way. You can initiate it by accessing the program, the program accesses your mailbox through your username and password and "pulls" the E-Mail down on to your handheld. I believe the TREO does this on its own every 15 minutes or so.
Now Imagine that you have AOL open 24 hours a day, seven days a week non stop. As soon as you were to recieve e-mail you would here the "You've got mail" in real time. Its instant....direct to your computer. No need for username and password because you are already logged in. Essentially that is what the Blackberry service provides.....Always On Push E-Mail. The E-Mail gets "pushed" to your handheld almost instantly. It takes about 2 seconds. Responses about 4 seconds.
The Blackberry also allows you to have multiple POP3 accounts attached to your Web Client and a custom Send Address of your choice that can be changed in 2 seconds. I could spoof
[email protected] if i really wanted too.
If all of what I said doesn't matter to you then you definately made the right choice. I just like the whole Always On E-mail.
