I found it interesting that now Hotmail has joined the webmail storage space wars by offering 250 MB for its free email service and 2 GB of storage for its paid service. It’s getting crowded now. Here’s a summary of who’s offering what.
- Gmail – 1GB storage, 10MB attachments
- Hotmail Plus – $19.95 per year, 2GB storage, 20MB attachments
- Hotmail free – 250MB storage, 10MB attachments
- Yahoo Mail Plus – £11.99, 2GB storage, 10MB attachments
- Yahoo Free – 100MB of storage, 10MB attachments
- Lycos UK Personal – £41.88 per year, 1GB storage, 50MB attachments
- Lycos UK – free, 10MB storage
- Spymac – free, 1GB storage
- Ask Jeeves – free, 250MB storage
- Ask Jeeves Excite Gold – $19.99 per year, 2GB storage
- Shiremail – £42 per year, 1GB storage
By the way, I’ll give a review of how my new Google Gmail account in the upcoming weeks. Thanks to Ha and Chris for the Gmail invitations!