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| Content | 9/10  |
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| Reviewer Rating | 9/10 |
| Overall Rating | 9/10  |
Full review by
prasimix
on 3rd Apr 2005
User Rating : 9
Respect :
0
Good Points: Integrated web messaging service that include fully functional email, fax, voicemail, voicememo and SMS messaging with antivirus and antispam (incl. personal B&W list), SMS alerts about new mail, RSS reader, Calendar, POP3 access and attractive user interface.
Bad Points: Lack of Import/export of calendar tasks, disk storage and possibly content sharing. Filter list should be on a more visible place.
General comments: Renzoo is a really feature rich web messaging service that combines in same mailbox, email, fax, voicemail, voicememo and missed calls type of messages. Sending SMS from web gives additional value for serious short messaging where all sent SMS can be stored in sent items (again together with all other types of sent messages). SMS alerts can be used for notification about new messages, RSS news and calendar/TODO tasks (extremely useful since you don't need to stay in front of your desktop to be reminded about important tasks). SMS notification about new messages is not just stupid mail-to-SMS gateway that can bomb you with hundreds of SMS about new mails: notifications can be based on multiple user defined criteria that decrease number of notification and increase your awareness about important mails.
Email viewer comes with download applet that makes download of multiple attachments much easier. System antispam protect me pretty well (I got only couple of spam per month on average of thousand mails). Personal black&white list is another useful tool against spam where spam source by email address, server, domain or IP address can be blocked.
Very useful service is so called voicememo that gives you digital recorder functionality that you can find is many modern mobile phones which is limited in capacity and complexity of moving audioclips from mobile phone to your desktop. With voicememo your recording arrives directly into mailbox where you can play it, forward it as email, etc.
Excellent but still geographically limited feature is free of charge fax receiving and voicemail. Received fax and voicemail can be opened using web clients and forward to other destination (manually or by defining user filter for that).
Fax sending can be done from any Windows desktop application (support for XP SP2 still missing) or TWAIN device like scanner that remove a need for fax machine completely!
Price of the service is right and thanks to fact that all feature exists in entry package you can enjoy all of them from the beginning.
Nice idea is also invitation that you can send to your friends and for all successful registration you'll earn some credits that you can use for SMS or fax sending.
Built in addressbook comes with vcard support for importing and exporting contacts from other solutions and excellent migration tool for simple migration of contacts from Outlook and OE. Addressbook can be used from any message composer and all of them also features autocomplete based on addressbook entries.
RSS viewer looks as a good add-on but it is still limited to sources that is defined by the system. I'd like to see in the future option that I can add my own RSS links. Good thing about RSS is integration with email and SMS alerts that gives news clipping a new dimension.
In the future I'd like to see calendar tasks import/export, possibly content sharing and network storage (disk) to have fully functional mobile office that I can use effectively from anywhere (I'm using it from my flat with DSL and summerhouse with old analog dialup!).
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