Cell phones
Receive emails on your phone through GooseBerry
Helps you receive your emails on the SMS Inbox on your cell phone with
out Internet or GPRS connection in real time
Usha Prasad
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
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BANGALORE, INDIA: In this technology-driven era, we depend heavily on
emails and cell phones to stay connected. For many, who are in regular
touch with friends, colleagues and business contacts through emails, it
may not be possible to be on the computer at all times. And, not all of
them can afford to have smart phones with GPRS services or a Blackberry.
Now, you can get your emails even when you are away from the computer.
Gurgaon-based Khushii IT Solutions has recently launched a service
called GooseBerry (http://www.gooseberry.in/), an email notification
system, that helps you receive your emails on the SMS Inbox of your cell
phone in real time (Compression algorithm applied optimize content
delivery over SMS ). The service works across both GSM and CDMA
networks.
"GooseBerry has made it possible to be connected with your emails 24X7,
without Internet or GPRS connection. You can receive and reply to your
emails using the SMS and can limit the number of SMS alerts you receive
by using Allowed list and Blocked list," says Sachin Gupta, principal
consultant at Khushii IT Solutions. GooseBerry will allow only those
emails that contain the specified keywords with in the email ID, subject
tag or body tag of an email specified by the user in the Allowed list.
Giving more details on how GooseBerry works, Gupta says, "Presently, we
are able to compress the mail size by 30 percent to ensure that you get
only a snapshot of the email on your phone in one SMS. Each SMS received
will have up to 160 characters in length. However, to receive the full
email, you can send SMS requests to us by typing 'next' and receive the
complete mail in parts. While there is no upper limit on the number of
SMS sent to the receiver from our end, the reply from the user's side is
limited to only one SMS."
"In order to stay in touch with their emails, people spend heavily on
costly devices and data plans for GPRS connectivity. When we surveyed
quite a number of BlackBerry and GPRS users, a majority of them were not
satisfied with the respective services as it was expensive and also
found difficulty in getting the mails due to slow bandwidth. This is
when we thought of offering a similar solution on SMS," explains Gupta.
GPRS is a PULL-based solution, which means you will always need to check
yourself if there is a new email, while GooseBerry will push the email
to you. GooseBerry will work anywhere your phone works in India while
GPRS-based phones will work only where you have GPRS network available,
he adds.
"GooseBerry service is offered through a compression technique, where we
remove spaces in the mail, use abbreviations and SMS lingos. We also use
scientific methods of finding which are the important parts of an email
to be sent," he added.
All that one needs to do to get this service is register with Gooseberry
by giving the phone number and email credentials. "Other than the
subscription fee, GooseBerry does not charge for sending SMS alerts to
your phone. However, you will be charged your service provider for
sending the reply to your email on your phone ," says Gupta.
With GooseBerry, one can achieve the same service with as low as Rs. 95
per month. You can also go in for multiple packs depending on the usage
and email traffic expected. Gooseberry supports 37 email servers as of
Jan 2009, including corporate emails, gmail, Yahoo, ibibo etc. Every day
support for more email servers is being added as users from various
companies are requesting for the same.
Why is the service named GooseBerry? "We wanted a name that is very
Indian, and also be identified with the existing technology. Hence, we
decided on GooseBerry," says Gupta.
Advantages of GooseBerry
*The service runs on any mobile on the planet without needing to install
anything
*You don't need to have a special hardware ie., Blackberry or mobile
with GPRS/3G capability
*The cost of this service is a fraction of the rental cost of Blackberry
or data plan (GPRS) which you would have
*You can create filters so that you don't get unwanted emails on your
device
*There are no extra charges on roaming as well (saves quite a bit of
money)
. With every one going into cost saving mode, this might be the solution
companies are looking for.
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