A little bit of history. Back in 1994 we developed our first product at Dialogue. It was called pagemail, and it did one thing well. It allowed you to send SMS messages from your computer. Over the years we developed that product further, but it was always an application which you installed and ran on your PC.
Then in 1998 we were asked to created a service hosted on the internet, that could provide an email to SMS service for Vodafone in the UK. This would become the Vodafone product Mobile-Alert. But the infrastructure behind this was something which would shape the company thereafter.
We had taken our E3 SMS gateway and put an application on the front of it. We realised that we were now able to do a lot more than just run a service to notify you by SMS when you had a new email. We had an internet hosted SMS gateway.
We had this gateway but we didn't know what to call it. So we had a bit of a discussion and came up with a word which wasn't a real word, but it kind of sounded suitable. The word was envelos, which we sometimes explained as a conjunction of 'envelope' and 'services'. The envelope was the almost universal symbol of an SMS on a mobile phone.
The other thing which turned out well about envelos was that it didn't necessarily sound like English. It was international and we thought that this could only help.
Over the past ten years we have used the name envelos less and less. But now we are getting ready to use it again. It is the new pagemail, but as it isn't an application you install but a web based SMS application, we won't use the name pagemail. But we will use the original pagemail 'paper plane' graphic.
We hope you'll like envelos and find it easy to use. It is almost ready for the world to see. Just a short wait now.
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