23rd July 2008, 7:28 AM   by Eric M. Zeman

Today Emoze announced a free, network operator-independent mobile email offering. Emoze will support Java-based mass market handsets from Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson. Users interested in the service can download the Java client for free from the Emoze web site. The mobile email service makes use of technologies from Sun, and offers a much richer user interface than many other mobile email products. It will support Microsoft Exchange, POP3/IMAP servers, as well as Web mail servers like Gmail. The service will be rolled out in waves. The first handsets to be supports will be Nokia's Series 40 phones. Others will be added over time.