Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Smart Wap Mail - Mobloggin'

Bloggin' while on the move used to be a dream of mine. Thank God I can now email posts to Blogger. With WAPmail I can post from my phone. I've got one gripe though. I can't access my Yahoo account from my SMART line. SMART's so intent on milking the sms cash cow that they blocked access to Yahoo's WAP site. I can only sms my way through Yahoo email. But what good would 160 characters do (character limit of sms-based email)? Hardly enough for a decent paragraph. At least WAPmail gives you 800 to 1,000 characters. So I'll have to make do with SMART's clunky WAPmail application. It gives me close to 850 characters for that added flexibility. Here's to mobile blogging!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

help! how can u receive emails from other mail accounts using smart wapmail??? pls help me. -princess

Ed said...

Hello Princess.

Sorry if I say that I vaguely remember how I did it back then. This post is around 4 years old. I stopped using it a few years ago becuase of problems I was having.

From what I can recall, Smart's WAP mail has spam filters. What you can do to to go around that is to put email addresses in your address book. that would allow mail from people you know to get through. At least that is how I did it.

If you have a fairly modern phone, MMS could be your solution. I know Smart users can now send and receive email thru MMS, but I have not done it myself because I couldn't make it work with the phones I used.