Organising your life on the move

“Your phone doesn't just handle calls; it can also help you organise your life. You can use its calendar functions or task management and retrieve or listen to your emails while you're on the move”  says Aurel Voiculescu, information systems director of Well-Pict European European LTD.

Over the last couple of months we have researched the market in order to identify the best mobile communications solutions that will suit our company’s needs. Most phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) come with a calendar, an address book and camera. We were looking for a simple phone that can also be used to access emails. Wireless, real-time email enables us to be more reactive to our customers, suppliers and colleagues and increases efficiency. Our preferred handsets are Treo 600, Nokia SPVC500 and Nokia 6600 because they combine many tasks into one device: phone, email, camera and personal organiser.

Email is a lightning fast way of communication and being able to stay in touch with our overseas companies is critical to our company. In a matter of seconds an important piece of information sent from South Africa is accessible to our mobile devices, while a copy of the email will be kept for our return to the office.

Whether you are setting up your PDA, laptop or phone for email, you'll need your email username and password and you can get these from your email provider. 

If you are setting up your mobile phone for emails you will need an email enabled phone and we recommend GPRS (General Packet Radio Service that is part of the GSM standard and delivers "always-on" wireless packet data services to GSM customers, providing packet data speeds of up to 115 kb/s) to access your email. 

If you would like any further information or guidance about email on the move or any other mobile communication, please contact the Information team on +44(0)1386 832 926 or email us at infowellpict-european.com

Winter 2004