Turn Any Cellphone Into an E-Mail Checking, CrackBerry Wannabe

The New York Times suggests to non-Blackberry users few apps to check your emails on the go beside using your Cellphone Web browser.

• Gmail for Mobile is a small Java app that reproduces the popular Web-based e-mail client on the small screen. The only problem here is that you need to manually check your e-mail—no wild beeps or vibrations when an e-mail arrives in your inbox. That might not be so bad, though, since all that network activity required to automatically check e-mail really eats up the battery.
• Yahoo has a mobile app of its own called Yahoo Go 2.0. This one can be configured to check your Yahoo e-mail automatically. You can also check in on various Yahoo-owned services, too, like Flickr and maps. Since it tries to do so many things, it runs a little slower than Gmail for Mobile and works on even fewer cellphones.
• Lastly,Teleflip, a service that converts any and all e-mails into a text message that any cellphone should be able to receive. You have to make a whitelist of e-mail address that you want Teleflip to SMS to your cellphone.

How to Make Your Cellphone Act Like a BlackBerry [New York Times]

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