Gmail Pros & Cons

Hi

Using Hotmail since like 8 years - still loving it, never had a "spam problem" with them - HOWEVER since 1 1/2 years also got G-Mail and am doing more and more with it instead of Hotmail! Reason:

Changed to Vista - and Vista's e-mail client won't support Hotmail (no joke! M$ against M$ here!) and Outlook from the Office package just plain sucks compared to Outlook Express/Windows Mail.

Hotmail - still no access by mobile phone's e-mail clients, and the web site takes for ever to load on a GPRS-WAP connection.

G-Mail gives roughly 2.8 GB of space (it actually increases slowly!) as opposed to Hotmail's 1 GB, but G-Mail also allows for larger attachments - cool if you want to send several mp3's in one mail. Then G-Mail is supported by almost every e-mail client software, even Windows Mail from Vista AND most mobile phones that have e-mail clients can use G-Mail, but SSL has to be supported by the phone (which leaves the Nokia 6600 out!) For phones without e-mail clients, but with JAVA capability, G-Mail offers a JAVA application that enables such phones to access G-Mail, receiving and sending of messages is supported, also receiving attachments but NOT sending any attachments (because JAVA has no avcess to a phone's file system).

I can only recommend G-Mail to anyone

Kind regards.....

Thanh