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Mob-e-mail vendor Consilient is bringing its free push e-mail application, aptly called Consilient Push, to North America. Available in Asia for some time, the software enables users to access their personal and corporate e-mail from the same place.

What's most interesting about Consilient Push is its support for low and high-end feature phones as well as Windows Mobile smartphones. So, according to the company, you don't have to have the latest and greatest device to enjoy all the benefits of a BlackBerry-like e-mail experience.

Consilient Push e-mail's Java-based server is designed to support thousands of clients connecting via multiple wireless devices and phones simultaneously.

With Consilient Push you can access up to five Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL Email, Gmail, POP3 or IMAP4 accounts. It supports attachments (i.e. photos, Word, Excel, PDF), personal signatures, color coding to recognize different accounts, the ability lock and wipe clean a phone if it is lost or stolen, personal signatures, and 128-bit encryption.

It runs over any GSM/GPRS network (carriers like T-Mobile and AT&T (formally Cingular) in the U.S.) and some CDMA networks, including Sprint, Verizon and Dobson in the U.S. and Aliant and Telus in Canada.

To sign up for Consilient push, head over to the company's Web site and fill out a short form. When you’re done a SMS message is sent to you phone. Click yes in the message and you're ready to go. A list of supportd phones can be found here.

In addition to the free version, a Premium edition of Consilient Push is available for $5 per month. It offers an upgrade path to a full multimedia suite of content sharing and mobile social networking.

“We’ve taken the cost and complexity out of mobile email,” according to Consilient CEO Trevor Adey.

Consilient Push is not only a direct challenge to RIM, but also to companies like Good Technology (now a part of Motorola), Seven, Visto, Nokia Intellisync, and Microsoft, among others.

When we spoke to Adley last year he emphasized how there's plenty of room for new blood such as Consilient. Today, the total push e-mail market can be measured in the low tens of millions. And yet there are over 2 billion mobile phones in the world.

Adley said to PDAStreet, "We're responding to market demand with Consilient Push. Carriers and device manufacturers recognize the high cost of solutions like BlackBerry and want something that's affordable for the mass market."

With Consilient Push, Adey asserted his company has the recipe to blow the push e-mal space wide open to hundreds of millions of users: "Up until now the only people that could afford to stay connected with e-mail were business executives. We designed Consilient Push with the price sensitive consumer in mind."