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My.Com Offers Mobile-Only, SMS-Authenticated Email and Cloud Storage


Android/iOS: If you're looking for a new (or alternative) email address, or just a way to get a ton of free cloud storage, My.com's new mobile-only email service lets you get any address you want at their domain, and it comes with 150GB of storage, to boot.

The service is built exclusively for smartphones and tablets, with native apps for iOS and for Android. Like any email service, the apps provide customizable push notifications when you get new messages, and along with your account, you get 150GB of storage for your emails, attachments, and files. The down-side is that you have to upload those files through the app as attachments to make use of the storage, and there's no desktop access to the storage or the service right now, which is a definite bummer.

My.com is actually a service from the folks at Mail.ru, and the new mobile-only service actually eschews passwords to access your account in favor of SMS-based authentication. In short, when you try to log in to your account, the service will ask you a question and send you a passcode to the registered phone number. You use the temporary passcode to log in. It's an interesting approach to security—one that works better if you're using My.com on a tablet or another device and use your phone as a second factor—if someone has physical access to your phone and the app, it's over, but the same is true for anything else on your device.

myMail (Free) | iTunes App Store

myMail (Free) | Google Play via myMail