BLUE BELL, Penn. - March 13, 2000 - PhoneFish.com, a leading provider of wireless Internet solutions, today announced PhoneFish, a wireless Internet email service specifically designed for users of web-enabled phones to access email accounts provided by most Internet Service Providers (ISP's). PhoneFish is a fully functional, two way wireless Internet solution for individuals and small- to medium- sized businesses to easily get their POP3 email away from the home or office. With the PhoneFish service, users access their existing ISP email account via the built-in browser on wireless web phones without having to establish a new email address.
"Email is the driving force in the mobile computing space," said Ed Dempsey, president of PhoneFish.com. "With the recent announcements from Microsoft and AOL regarding messaging from mobile devices, consumers and small business people are going to want to get access to their email as well. There are tens of millions of people who have established email addresses from Internet Service Providers. Phonefish is a solution for all of the people not using AOL, MSN Mail or Hotmail."
PhoneFish.com is on the forefront of providing a wireless Internet email solution for web-enabled phones. According to Jupiter Communications, a leading Internet-industry analyst firm, the number of users of browser-enabled mobile phones will soar from 1.1 million this year to 79.4 million in 2003. PhoneFish.com is providing a service to meet the marketplace demands and fulfill the ever-changing life-style needs of consumers and mobile professionals.
Using PhoneFish
Using a web-enabled phone, subscribers to PhoneFish can read, send, reply, delete and forward email messages. Unlimited multiple e-mail accounts can be accessed on one phone, such as business and personal email accounts. Users can seamlessly access email from their web phone and desktop email client, making it easy to manage read and unread messages. PhoneFish features include:
· Easy to read message formatting with simple menu navigation
· One-button dialing of phone numbers in email messages
· Personalized prepared reply messages to avoid lengthy phone pad typing
· Address book that automatically displays most often used addresses first
· Messages sent from the phone automatically copied to sender
· Option to view messages by subject or sender
· Phone keypad friendly URL (ptw0.net) to set up service
· Profile set up and user options maintained through PC web browser at www.phonefish.com
Most other email options available for web phones today do not easily support POP3 email and are pure web-based alternatives requiring the set up of a new address and cumbersome configuration. "With web based email solutions, users give up the richness of a desktop email client, such as maintaining message folders and reading messages while not connected to the Internet," adds Dempsey. "Phonefish gives people the ability to continue using their existing email address with favorite desktop email client at home or in the office, and the flexibility of easily accessing and acting on their email on the go through their web-enabled phone."
Phonefish will be offering three types of subscriber programs; a premium service for a small monthly fee of $3.95 and two no-spam services, one of which is free. Subscribers can sign up for service within minutes by visiting www.phonefish.com through their PC browser, by pointing the minibrowser of their web phone to the phone friendly URL: jgjg.com or calling 877-446-5655 or 610-260-0747.
About PhoneFish.com
PhoneFish.com is dedicated to delivering feature-rich, easy to use personalized wireless internet messaging and communications for web-enabled phones. Their service, PhoneFish, is an interactive WAP (wireless application protocol) email solution specifically designed to support ISP email without having to establish a new email address. PhoneFish.com has a multi-tiered strategic alliance program consisting of wireless network carriers, Internet Service Providers (ISP), wireless Internet portals and consumers. The company is capitalizing on the nationwide exponential growth of Internet access, the rapid growth of the wireless industry, and the average consumers' need for information on demand. The Internet is changing the way people live and work, and ultimately how people send and receive information. PhoneFish is providing the convenience for email access anytime and anywhere.