Email on the move...... ?

nighthawk · Post by **nighthawk** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 7:58 pm 0

In view of all the techie loving guys on here..... any suggestions for a good mobile/smart phone to send/receive email on the move, and tariff ?

Have had a Nokia 7110 on O2 for a number of years but the email on WAP is how shall i say somewhat rubbish !

Will be away for two weeks and need to keep in touch, had thought of the laptop and IR connection with the mobile, but don't really want to lug it around.

Any suggestions ??

venusian · Post by **venusian** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 8:35 pm 0

nighthawk wrote:In view of all the techie loving guys on here..... any suggestions for a good mobile/smart phone to send/receive email on the move, and tariff ?

Have had a Nokia 7110 on O2 for a number of years but the email on WAP is how shall i say somewhat rubbish !

Will be away for two weeks and need to keep in touch, had thought of the laptop and IR connection with the mobile, but don't really want to lug it around.

Any suggestions ??

Depending how much you want to spend. some of the recent Palms and Handprings are pretty doozy. Dabs have a cheap old mono Treo with bulit-in phone which the new Tunsten with phone is the doggy's doo-dads.

mattley · Post by **mattley** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 8:59 pm 0

P800's pretty sweet as an all in one jobby. Otherwise a T68i and palm T works very well.

I think the PPC is a dreadful PDA OS but there are fun toys to be run on it.

koworld · Post by **koworld** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 10:45 pm 0

I've been stunned by how great WAP is on my new Siemens S55. The pics are just big enough to work and there is loads of great content.

Also, while we are all doing advice...

I've bought a bluetooth card for my Toshiba PPC so it can talk quickly to the phone. I want to set-up e-mail but I'm struggling a bit. Do I have to set-up Orange as my ISP when using the phone?

ekendrick · Post by **ekendrick** » Thu Jun 19, 2003 11:20 pm 0

I recently got a T68i with O2 and am pretty chuffed with it, especially as the phone came free with the contract. Having some problems with the tariff though (140 quid worth of calls in one week abroad, and I blame my phone for automatically checking my email once an hour - but I have to wait for the bill to get a breakdown and find out why).

T68i is a great little phone, I carry it in my suit pocket as it is so small and light, yet has wap, email, and lots of memory - I've even made my own custom backgrounds for it

MadHippo · Post by **MadHippo** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 9:36 am 0

My Nokia 3650 seems pretty good and has an email client built in as well as "full" web browser. (Not quite full-full, but it's better than WAP)
It has bluetooth and IR, and even comes with reasonable PC Client software to do full backups of the phone and / or transfer files too and from it.

Also camera, sound recorder and all the usual bumf.

Louis G · Post by **Louis G** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 7:49 pm 0

Personally i would have to say the orange spv, its free links up with your p.c and has full internet and outlook. Also you can choose if you want to download images from your email or just text saving you a hell of alot of money

Louis

mattley · Post by **mattley** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 8:52 pm 0

koworld wrote:
I've bought a bluetooth card for my Toshiba PPC so it can talk quickly to the phone. I want to set-up e-mail but I'm struggling a bit. Do I have to set-up Orange as my ISP when using the phone?

Have you got Orange GPRS or are you using the S55 modem?

If you're using GPRS you need to use your normal email POP3 settings and Oranges outgoing server to send mail.

If you're using the modem in the S55 to dial your normal ISP you can use all your normal ISP settings.

If the problem is actually connecting to the phone then you need to look at the bluetooth settings in both the phone and the Tosh. One of the gotcha's I had when doing this is that the phone also has the option to set up multiple accounts so the Connection string on the Tosh needs to include a switch to tell the phone to use it's GPRS account rather than the default WAP.

Confused.....you will be....... stay tuned for the next episode of SOAP...

(and I don't mean Simple Object Application Protocol)

mattley · Post by **mattley** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 9:05 pm 0

ekendrick wrote:I recently got a T68i with O2 and am pretty chuffed with it,

I had a T68i before I got the P800 and I found it a bit fiddly, but now I realise what a truly great phone it is. The P800 is great bit o' kit but not a great phone.

koworld · Post by **koworld** » Fri Jun 20, 2003 10:17 pm 0

mattley wrote:
koworld wrote:
I've bought a bluetooth card for my Toshiba PPC so it can talk quickly to the phone. I want to set-up e-mail but I'm struggling a bit. Do I have to set-up Orange as my ISP when using the phone?
Have you got Orange GPRS or are you using the S55 modem?

What's a modem?

Thanks for the thoughts, I've printed that out to add to the instructions on Orange!

Cheers,

Rich

mattley · Post by **mattley** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 1:51 am 0

koworld wrote:What's a modem?

It's a device built into a mobile that when used in conjuction with graffiti on a PDA enables your analogue input to be converted into digital storage which can then be digitally transmitted to to an analogue converter. this analogue data can then be converted to a digital sequence which is transmitted via digital network to a then gets converted back into an analogue stream, a digital converter can then turn the analogue data back into digital data which can then converted into analogue data on a printer.

Or something like that......it's the future man....

Dr. M · Post by **Dr. M** » Sat Jun 21, 2003 1:57 am 0

YakYak

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