Top 5 Reasons To Use Pfingo

ONE - I've turned my phone into a BlackBerry without paying for one

Well, not quite my phone since I use the Sony Ericsson M600i but I'm testing pfingo on Nokia E65. I'm a Yahoo mail customer and I POP my mail to Outlook. I have to check my mail on Outlook to know if there is a mail. Sometimes I turn on Yahoo Messenger which drops a quick alert when there is mail. But hearing a beep on the phone is even better. And I don't have to be at my desk. And with pfingoActive on the E65, I can even download attachments and reply on the fly. The set-up is also extremely easy. Go to pfingo website to configure. You are supposed to just enter your e-mail address and password, though it didn't work for me - i had to still manually add in the mail server address.

TWO - I can sync my Outlook Contacts and Calendar over-the-air, again without paying for a BlackBerry

This is uber cool. I installed a pfingo desktop client on my laptop, checked on Auto Sync, and suddenly all my 322 contacts were sent over to my mobile phone under the pfingoActive mobile client. Woot! Calendar works too although the recuuring events and not supported, at least not yet. Whenever you change your Contacts or Calender on Outlook or on your mobile pfingo client, the information is automatically synchronised OVER-THE-AIR. Woo Hoo! OK, so I've never used a BlackBerry Enterprise grade device, but this sure as hell sounds like it. Except you don't have to pay anything (at least not now) and you don't need to beg your IT guys for help!

THREE - I can get any file on my laptop on my mobile phone

No kidding. I installed pfingo desktop client on my laptop and I could access everything on my laptop on my mobile phone via pfingoActive. I can even download the file from my PC to my mobile or select the file and send it direct via e-mail to a recipient. Of course your laptop and the client needs to be up and running.

FOUR - I can make free VOIP calls from my phone to any phone number

No Skype client for Symbian? No problem. pfingoTalk gives me a number 31051188 to be exact and whenever I am logged in to Wi-Fi, I can use that number to make calls to and receive calls from any number. In the pipeline also is something like a Skype-In number so your friends overseas can call that Skpe-In number and talk to you at local charges.

FIVE - View the web cam on your PC from your mobile

This is not documented anywhere and is probably isnt working right now. But I saw this option in the configuration page and I can only deduce something like this is in the pipeline!

The hottest new mobile 2.0 service from StarHub

Push mail. VOIP. MSN Messenger. Contacts. Calendar. Remote file access of PC. Online storage. All now available on your mobile phone via a single service - Pfingo.

Pfingo is the new mobile 2.0 service from infocomm company StarHub, which has three lines of business - mobile phone, cable TV and broadband Internet. But now, for the very first time, StarHub has developed a mobile application quite unlike anything I have seen in the market. In fact, I have not seen innovation of this level coming from a Singapore company for a very very long time.

I have the privilege of being selected as one of the first 30-40 trialists of this new service, and I have been testing it on a provided Nokia E65 multimedia phone since Thursday. I was so impressed that I decided to create this blog dedicated to all things Pfingo.

There are so many features that it would be quite impossible to put it all together into one article. Plus Pfingo is still in its infancy and more and more features will be added.

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