Keeping up with the latest trends in mobile phone technology is tough enough. Add the multitude of pesky spam crawling into your smartphone inbox, and you've got one big techno headache. It's sad to see a "can-do-anything" mobile phone relegated to just a simple call-and-text ho-hum phone. All because it's too damn painful to wait for long mail downloads, only to get tons of spam.

Fortunately, there are solutions according to Rick Broid of Lifehacker fame. While spam-filter does wonders for the traditional email system, mobile phones don't get the same treatment. Hence, the need to get a server-based solution - a system that stops spam at the source. That way, only legitimate emails get through.

Of course, not everyone has the patience to go through the process. When laziness kicks in, even the best spam-filter solution gets little attention. So there's an alternative: share your email addresses only with family, friends, and colleagues. Sure, it's an old-fashioned strategy - but it works like magic.

If that's too simple for you, then you can just sync your phone with a spam-free desktop inbox. That way, you don't have to go and pull emails straight from the server that's plagued with spam.