How do you check your email?

Discussion in 'Tablets, Phones and Music Players' started by zeus, Feb 19, 2007.

  1. zeus

    zeus out of date

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    I want to be able to check my emails on a mobile phone but when I look at the pay as you go sim cards they all want to charge a subscription allowing email.

    How is it you can go on the internet on your phone (0.73 p/kb max £1) and not check your email?

    I dont get it! I also dont want to pay £7.50 a month to check my emails.
     
  2. donkey42

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    although i've never used my mobile to check my email, i would have thought you just needed to enter your
    • Username
    • Password
    • POP
    • SMTP
    good luck, & let me know if you sort it[ot]cos i might give it a go[/ot]
     
  3. zeus

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    Donkey, thanks for the reply.
    I wasnt going to respond until I tried what you suggested.

    I was going to use a phone I won on ebay and expected it to arrive by now. I got an email from ebay saying the item had been deleted because it breached ebay policy. Ive paid for it but havent got a response from the seller yet. I might not get to try it for a while.

    See if you can see whats wrong with this......
    eBay.co.uk: Orange SPV E100 Phone/Pda (item 280082484826 end time 18-Feb-07 22:15:44 GMT)
    It does say "Please Note: our Orange connection offers are available to UK customers only" so maybe your not allowed to trade tariffs on ebay. I was gonna use a T mobile sim anyway.

    If it turns up I 'll let you know how I get on with the email.
     
  4. donkey42

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    first contact ebay here, and describe the situation to them, they'll probably suggest mailing the seller, then contact us again if they haven't responded in about 3 days

    that phone is LOCKED on orange
    so, you will need to have it unlocked / unblocked if you want to use it on T-Mobile (orange can unlock it, or "cough" you could NOT take the phone to some dodgy bloke that runs a market stall to unlock it "cough"
    no, just get it unlocked[ot]"cough" you also could NOT try some phone unlocking website "cough cough"[/ot]

    BTW: phones are not locked on a tariff, they are locked on a network (T-Mobile, Orange, O2 & Vodaphone, also some mobile providers use the network of others (e.g. "cough" Virgin Mobile are NOT using T-Mobile's network "cough"))[ot]"cough" you could also NOT try googling your phone model and "unlock" or "unblock" "cough cough"[/ot]

    thankies
     
  5. zeus

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    I got through to the seller. Apparently it was the photograph which ebay didnt like. Its still there so it cant be that bad.
     
  6. donkey42

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    so, is the seller sending you the phone ?
    any luck with "cough" the NOT unlocking thing ? "cough cough"
     
  7. zeus

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    Yeah, he sent it. Hopefully ill get it tormorrow.

    There is an entire forum on the spv phones and there are a few unlocking tools so with a bit of luck ill manage to do it myself.
    quote from the forum....
    "It so easy to use..around 4 to 5 mouse clicks then youll be able to get it unlocked."

    Its about time I learned all this mobile phone crap, being the only computer geek on the estate I get asked about them all the time.
     
  8. donkey42

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    like me a while ago, i was the camp (village) electrician, although i never had any qualifications[ot]but with th law being the way it is, you need to be quailfied to have a sh1t[/ot]

    BTW: good :beer:
     
  9. zeus

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    Well in the end I just went to inbox, entered my username, password and email server details and clicked on Send/Receive and it worked. It seems to be priced at the price of the wap service.

    Why T-Mobile charge £7.50 a month for email I dont know!

    Its my first phone in 7 years! and I love it. Its 5 years old but its got mp3, wmv, wma, n all that, 1gb sd card and MS Windows CE. I only really want it for when I go on bike rides.... its a map (sat nav if I buy the sdio gps addon) and a way of getting people to bring me petrol when im in the depths of North Wales. The music and video n stuff are just something to keep me entertained while im waiting :)

    Thanks for the help donkey.... I may well have signed up for a £7.50 a month addon as I expected people to say id have to pay this.
     
  10. chronic2005

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    I pay that 7.50:p

    On my vario 2, its definately worth the money. Access to all my email, msn, the net and i can hook it up to my laptop and use the phone as a modem SCORE.
     
  11. donkey42

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    well apparently, you don't need to, i may give it a try, obviously when my bank balence looks a bit healthier, as using WAP is expensive
    because people are daft enough to pay it, rather than doing a bit of research[ot]like you did zeus[/ot]
     
  12. zeus

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    It depends on how much you use it really. Its gonna end up costing a £ a day if you download the whole message of each email. But if you subscribe its 25p a day.

    T Mobile dont go out of their way to let you know you dont need to subscribe though. Non of the operators do. Orange charge £17.99 to enable email on your blackberry, id imagine its the same as t mobile.
     
  13. liciniusjack

    liciniusjack Geek Trainee

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    I don't have so much emergency for checking my email on mobile as like you all. But yes i have a tool bar on my laptop for logging in that alert me after every 10-15 minutes about my new emails. This is the easiest way to know for me to know my emails.
     

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