To understand why I am so excited about Chattermail, you need to understand a little bit about what it's like living the Tech lifestyle in Costa Rica. The GSM cell provider here in Costa Rica has been "testing," GPRS for five years now. I was one of the first to sign up for the program, and despite the fact that you can NOT sign up for it now, I have continued to use the service. It's spotty, hard to connect even in some areas where there is good GSM signal, but I have managed to get by using my Lifedrive and Motorola V3, and now my Treo 650.

Mobile High Speed, is a piece of software that automates the process of connection scripts and phone configuration, and supports Costa Rica's GPRS network. MHS has connection scripts for hundreds of countries and providers, and works like a charm. I have been using the wonderful Snapper Mail for some time now on all of my mobile devices, and have generally been satisfied with it. But Snapper depends on you making a connection and then downloading your email. While you can set Snapper up to automatically download email, the connection is often lost, and requires using MHS to reconnect and then download, often a time consuming process, IF it works. Since Blackberry services are not available here, that was not an option.

I had heard about Chattermail in some of the forums I frequent, and heard that it could provide Blackberry like connectivity without the cost. I started testing the software on Saturday, and it is AMAZING! Chattermail integrates with the connection software, in this case MHS, and keeps the connection open. Using my service providers IMAP server, I am able to keep connection with my email all day long, with each new email arriving instantly.  I often go down to one or two bars of cell signal during my travels during the day. The amazing thing is that Chattermail rarely loses its connection, regardless of relative signal strength. It also manually recconects to the GPRS network quite transparently if the signal is dropped. It is fast, reliable, easy to use and powerful. Snappermail has been deleted from my Treo...

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Posted by: Aguilitico at January 10, 2008 10:15 AM