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Windows Mobile phones and Blackberrys have been getting Exchange email pushed to them for a while now.  Today, Palm announced an update for their 680 and 700p smartphones that will add automatic synchronization of email, contacts, and calendar with any Exchange Server.  Finally, you will no longer have to keep sending/receiving in order to stay up to date.  Welcome to the smartphone business Palm!

Via [PhoneScoop]

The Treo 650 dates all the way back to November of 2004, and Palm clearly isn’t ready to put it to sleep...yet.  In fact, they just announced that they’ll be offering the popular push email solution BlackBerry Connect for the Cingular version.  If you’re not familiar with BlackBerry Connect, it essentially turns your non-BB smartphone into a BB-like device.  Here’s a bit more from the product page:

If your company is one of the many that have installed a BlackBerry Enterprise Server™4 for their corporate email solution, the Treo 650 smartphone with BlackBerry Connect™ gives you quick and easy access to everything on your device—phone, calendar, software applications, and, of course, email.

Read [Palm]

Thinking about getting the upcoming Motorola Q but worried about the email situation? Well we are happy to report and RIM must be sad to say that Moto will deliver push email to your Qwerty handset. Good Technology will power the GoodLink push email.

GoodLink on the Moto Q provides business customers with:

• Continuous, two-way push-based wireless synchronization of all corporate PIM functions including e-mail, calendar, contacts, notes and tasks, as well as access to other applications including corporate intranets, CRM and ERP


• Intuitive, zero-learning-curve interface with full access to attachments and thousands of personal and professional productivity applications developed for the Windows Mobile 5.0 platform


• Enterprise-class, FIPS-certified security including end-to-end AES data encryption, remote data wipe, and remote password policy management


• Secure Over-The-Air device provisioning and management for improved TCO and simplified IT administration featuring Zero-IT-Touch activations and upgrades of GoodLink and third-party applications.

GoodLink on the Moto Q is available for Microsoft Exchange users today, and will be available for IBM Domino/Lotus Notes users this summer.

Read [Motorola]

Need a solution for push email for your new 700p? EmailTreo delivers an push email service for Palm Powered Treo Smartphones (Treo 600, 650 and 700p) at a affordable cost. Real-time mobile email is no longer confined to companies with IT staffs and big budgets, but accessible for small and medium businesses as well as individual users. With EmailTreo, users get email instantly on their Treo in the same way they appear on their desktop and remain continuously synchronized with their Web Mail and desktop applications including Outlook and Thunderbird.

Extremely simple to set up and use, an EmailTreo account is configured directly from within ChatterEmail+ on the Treo handset and is provided free for 6 month ($1.75 per month thereafter). ChatterEmail+ is purchased separately for a one time license of $39.95 after a free 30 day trial period. The combined solution is significantly less costly than other push email offerings that have far fewer features. EmailTreo can be set up in less than one minute, requiring neither IT assistance nor troublesome software plug-ins.