STupid cell phone email question

DaveH

DaveH

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When you get a cell phone with email capabilities, in general how do you hook it up to your existing email accounts? I'm thinking about getting a new phone.

TIA
 
i depends on what kinda phone you get and what company you go with and what email account you have. i have a verizon black berry 8800 and i use gmail, just downloaded the app.
 
DaveH said:
When you get a cell phone with email capabilities, in general how do you hook it up to your existing email accounts? I'm thinking about getting a new phone.

TIA
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Depending on the carrier you may need to purchase a data package additional to the voice package. Some carriers offer discounts if they are purchased together. IMO it's not worth the hassle or the price.
 
Dave: with my Blackberry (essentially a cell phone with email and internet), you go to a website, sign in and then tell it which email accounts to access.

The blackberry has its own email address, which you can use just like any email address. You can also forwarded your home email address to the blackberry (if your ISP has an option to let you forward).

But what most folks do is have your current (e.g., home) email address "pushed" to the blackberry. By that I mean that the BB checks your home email address every 15 minutes and if anything is there it takes a copy of it that you see on the BB. If it finds something, it checks once a minute for the next three minutes, then goes back to checking every 15 minutes.

BB also has filters, so that my "important" email (Wifey, boss, secretary) arrives immediately and has a distinctive ring. All other email has a different notifier sound, telling me that I can ignore it for the time being if I want.

I love my BB because I work at home, and it allows me to leave the house but appear to be at home. When I "reply" from the BB, the other party sees it coming from my home address even though its from the BB. Its awesome, and why some folks call them "crackberries". Addictive.

See www.blackberryforums.com.
 
powernoodle said:
Dave: with my Blackberry (essentially a cell phone with email and internet), you go to a website, sign in and then tell it which email accounts to access.

The blackberry has its own email address, which you can use just like any email address. You can also forwarded your home email address to the blackberry (if your ISP has an option to let you forward).

But what most folks do is have your current (e.g., home) email address "pushed" to the blackberry. By that I mean that the BB checks your home email address every 15 minutes and if anything is there it takes a copy of it that you see on the BB. If it finds something, it checks once a minute for the next three minutes, then goes back to checking every 15 minutes.

BB also has filters, so that my "important" email (Wifey, boss, secretary) arrives immediately and has a distinctive ring. All other email has a different notifier sound, telling me that I can ignore it for the time being if I want.

I love my BB because I work at home, and it allows me to leave the house but appear to be at home. When I "reply" from the BB, the other party sees it coming from my home address even though its from the BB. Its awesome, and why some folks call them "crackberries". Addictive.

See www.blackberryforums.com.
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HAHA crackberries, that they are hell i even carry an extra battery lol:D:D
 
i have a razr with the email capability & i can check email and such but when i try to send email it goes, well, it goes somewhere but not to where i want it to lol, it says "sending" then "sent" but i dont/they dont get the email.

what am i doing wrong??
 
I have Gmail java app installed - neat!
local provider charges like 25 cents per 1 mb data, but that app (and Opera mini) generate very low traffic.
 
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