What’s the big deal about push email?
RIM’s Blackberry and BES server, Apple’s iPhone and MobileMe service, Microsoft’s ActiveSync with Exchange all offer Push Email. That is, your phone instantly gets a notifcation of new email. I don’t get it. I don’t want my phone to tell me when I have new email. I disable push email and set it to check once an hour at most and when I feel like it I’ll read them to see if there’s anything urgent. I get tons of personal and work email throughout the day and barely have time to read them much less get interrupted every time one comes in. Sometimes I even exit Outlook while I’m at work if I need to get something done. I think most people don’t realize how much time checking email costs.
If anything I would like a phone that notifies me when I don’t get new email, because that probably means something is wrong with the mail server.