After months of running a free beta trial, Nokia has finally launched its push mail service via SingTel – the first of its type in Asia, so says the press release.

From tomorrow, SingTel users who buy the new Nokia E63 phone and sign up for a S$5-a-month MobileM@ail Plus data plan for two years will get the push mail service free of charge.

According to Nokia and SingTel, MobileM@il Plus also comes with a bundle of 10MB data and PhoneSafe – a mobile phone security offering that “lets customers lock phone, backup and delete important data such as emails from phones remotely”.

The big deal about the push mail service from Nokia is that it works right out of the box. All you need is your e-mail address and password to get going. …

I met up with the Nokia folks recently and got my hands on the upcoming Nokia E75 messaging phone, which we wrote about at its launch in February 2009.

Let’s start by saying this ain’t your average slim phone. In fact, placed next to my HTC Touch Diamond, it is much thicker and bulkier. But that’s not exactly the best comparison, as you’ll see soon after getting a feel of it for the first time.

If I hadn’t told you this was a phone with a slide-out keyboard, you might just be fooled. Now, if you consider that a full-sized Qwerty is hidden in that shiny frame, would you still consider this a thick, ugly phone?

Nope, I didn’t think so. It’s actually pretty small for a device with so much packed in.

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