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Top 3 Cool Messaging features on your Rumor2

Friday, December 4th, 2009

The LG Rumor2 is what I would call a solid messaging device. It is similar to the widely popular original Rumor in form factor and functionality with a few new tweaks and improvements. With the improved messaging capability,someone on the Rumor2 is going to be messaging easily and often.

Here are my favorite three messaging features:

It has threaded text messaging.
Your text messages are organized by conversation instead of by time, so you can recall that conversation you had with your friend about where to meet for a bite to eat tonight and make sense of it all. It even shows the date, if your conversation spanned over a few days.

The 4 row qwerty keyboard has a dedicated emoticon key.
You can insert the quick smiley face or wink with one button instead of having to draw the face yourself. The phone gives you 12 different preset facial expressions – even one for a crying face, in case you ever need to express great sorrow.

Add email messaging with the Gmail app
This is a really cool application that you can check your gmail account with that is available only on select non-smartphones. The Rumor2 is one of them. You can always check your gmail account by going to the mobile gmail site through the web browser on your phone, but this app delivers a better user experience.

To download the gmail app go to: m.google.com from your phone’s browser and click on gmail to download and install the app. Beware the gmail app does use data so if you want to avoid high data charges, I recommend adding a data plan.

And as if you need any more reasons to upgrade to this phone, it comes with an extra stylish cover.

The stylish cover that comes with the LG Rumor2

The stylish cover that comes with the LG Rumor2

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The Gmail Email Application

Friday, September 4th, 2009

I just recently discovered Google’s downloadable application for gmail.  Until now, I’ve checked my gmail from my mobile phone by going to the gmail mobile site http://m.google.com or if I’m using a BlackBerry, by setting up my Gmail email account through the BlackBerry email setup.

If you were used to checking your email using the mobile browser, the Gmail email app will feel like a much easier and more powerful way to check email.  The application offers search, saving of drafts, viewing your inbox even when you’re off line because your messages are downloaded and kept locally in the app, and easy access to multiple gmail accounts.

Compared to the native Blackberry email setup, the Google Email application has a few nice features.  Emails can be viewed in thread format so that you can follow the back and forth conversation with your mom about dinner next week.  You can search and use your Gmail contacts without having to save them in your BlackBerry contacts.  The icon for the app is the Gmail envelope icon so that you can easily distinguish it from your corporate email inbox.  The potential drawback of the Gmail app is that it feels like it’s using more data over the network than the BlackBerry app – I guess I will see on my next phone bill.

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Gmail App on Your Cell Phone – Even Better!

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Many people now use their cell phone to access personal email such as Yahoo! Mail or Gmail while on the go   This can be done with any data capable phone simply by browsing to the log in page and entering your existing user name and password.   Most email providers offer special mobile URLs to help optimize for your phone.   As proof of mobile email’s popularity the email messaging links are among the most  popular links on  m.credomobile.com.

If you’re like me, however, you always want to use the most convienent services available.  If so, I suggest downloading the Gmail application to your phone.  This works best if you have an unlimited data plan because the Gmail application runs in the background on your phone and uses more data than browsing to your email.

Gmail’s application allows you to:

Access Multiple Gmail Accounts and easily switch back and forth

Work “offline” – Create drafts of messages, or reply to messages even when you’re out of a wireless coverage area such as on a Subway.  The App will automatically send any messages in our outbox once coverage resumes.

Message autorefresh – Gmail will show new messages in your inbox without the need to hit the refresh button on your browser.

Address autocomplete – allows you to enter a long email address after typing just the first few characters.

The App also allows you to view Attachments, use new Shortcuts and many other nifty features.

The Gmail App works on most smart phones including the BlackBerry and many other standard phones including most Java-enabled (J2ME) mobile phones, Palm devices with Palm OS 5 or higher, Windows Mobile 5 or above, as well as all Symbian 3G devices.

To download the Gmail App simply browse to http://m.google.com/mail on your mobile phone.

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