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When people talk about receiving emails on their cell phone, they’re usually talking about a smartphone. You know, BlackBerry, Palm Treo, Windows Mobile devices, the iPhone. But with the average price of these devices coming in at over $200, not everyone can have the privilege of owning one. Thankfully, more options are becoming available for not-so-smart phones (it sounds better than dumb phones). I’ve recently stumbled across two such options: TeleFlip, and a new push email program from Verizon.

Small and medium size business customers who use Microsoft Exchange Servers or Verizon’s Hosted Exchange solution can take advantage of Verizon’s new program, dubbed RemoSync. It comes in the form of an application, and allows users to view email once the application is launched. This is available on select Get It Now-capable phones — including the dual-flip Samsung Alias (a quite popular phone by my observation). It’ll cost $9.99 per month.

TeleFlip allows you to view your email through SMS. It’s a strange service, and apparently doesn’t have a great turnover time — this review claims you get your text message between three and 35 minutes from when the message was sent. Also, since SMS is limited in length, the email is broken down among many text messages, though you can choose a cut-off point. Further, you won’t see any emails coming from people not on your contacts list, though that’s said to be remedied over the summer.

To send emails, you send an SMS to the shortcode 33715. Each of your contacts will have a nickname, which is the first six letters of the email address — hope you don’t have two Michaels on your list. After that, a space, followed by your message. Of course, you will have a character limit on the email.

It works with any email account that does not require a secure connection to the web. So that covers the main free providers, Yahoo!, Hotmail, and Gmail. Then again, I force a secure connection with my Gmail. I guess that leaves me out of luck.

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