Flurry: email for cell phones

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I’m a bit late reporting on Flurry, which offers a free application that will work on any Java-capable phone, and allow subscribers with a data plan to send, receive, and filter email, manage an address book, and read RSS feeds. Flurry highlights email addresses, telephone numbers, and links so that clicking will initiate a message, call, or web session. Given how many of the phones now given away with new subscriptions run Java, and can work with a data plan, this seems like a promising low cost alternative to higher end phones, at least for reading mail (sending without a real keyboard is painful). Flurry works with IMAP accounts, and in contrast to the Gmail mobile app, with any standard email service. Other Java-based clients that worth looking at include Renzoo, ProfiMail and Google’s GMail for mobile application.