The A to Z of wireless

E is for Email

Receiving email on mobile devices is one of the killer apps of wireless technology and revolutionised the way businesspeople can work.

The BlackBerry has become synonymous with mobile email, and is probably the most famous wireless device to target that service. Developed by North American Research in Motion, the BlackBerry has become the archetypal mobile email device.

The list from A to Z

Click on the links below to find out more on each of the entries in the list.

A is for Antivirus
B is for Bluetooth
C is for The Cloud
D is for dotMobi
E is for Email
F is for FMC
G is for GPS
H is for HSDPA
I is for i-mode
J is for Japan Air
K is for Korea
L is for LBS
M is for M2M
N is for NFC
O is for Operating systems
P is for Pubs
Q is for QoS
R is for Roaming
S is for Satellite
T is for TV
U is for UMTS
V is for Virgin
W is for WiMax
X is for XDA
Y is for Yucca
Z is for Zigbee

It has developed a lot since it first emerged in 1999. The new BlackBerry Pearl is a new take on the PDA, being the same size as a regular mobile phone but with added email capability.

Another well-known platform, iMode, was O2 launched in the UK in 2004, and which puts email and other internet features onto a more standard mobile phone.

Mobile email's growing importance to businesses is shown in a recent poll by the analyst Datamonitor, suggesting that half of the 200 European companies surveyed say they have already deployed mobile email, compared to about 39 per cent in 2004.