E-mail using GSM phone

[Andy_Maxwell]

Heya,
I'm using a Palm m500 with a Sony Ericsson t68i cell phone. I'm on a U.K. phone network, 02, but this probably applies to anyone, anywhere.

I'm able to use the internet - such as it is on the mono screen :) - just fine, and I can e-mail, also. What I'm wondering is, are the e-mails I send from my Palm separate from e-mails on my phone? I believe they are, but I want to make sure - as my tarriff does not include e-mails sent from my phone. As I say, I'm 99% sure that they are separate, but I'd appreciate any insight from anyone else here.

Thanks in advance!

Andrew Maxwell

andy_mobile@tiscali.co.uk

[Telyx]

E-mails you send from the Palm through the phone are separate from e-mails sent directly from the phone, if you're using the phone to dial up your ISP, since they don't go through your phone provider's mail server.

I use T-Mobile (in U.S.) and would have to pay extra for their data service in order to send e-mail directly from my phone. Using my phone as a modem and dialing up my ISP, I'm just charged regular minutes and can send/receive e-mail and web-surf (as such) without extra charges.

[Andy_Maxwell]

Heya,
Thanks for that, appreciate the reply!
I'd guessed about that, but wanted to make sure; you also answered another question - it costs extra to e-mail from the phone. I guess this makes sense. E-mails from my phone aren't included in my tarriff, but then, it's actually just as handy to dial my ISP using my Palm and send them that way - plus, I can use a fully featured e-mail client like Multi-Mail SE, instead of the small (well, comparatively so) screen of the cell phone.

Thanks again!

Andrew Maxwell

andy_mobile@tiscali.co.uk

[Andy_Maxwell]

Hey again,
Was just wondering, if by using the Palm SMS program, are the SMS also free from regular phone charges? I doubt so very much - the way I see it, an ISP can forward an e-mail on to the recipient easily, but any regular ISP wouldn't have the facilities to forward an SMS to the recipient - for that, it would need to be sent through the phone, therefore using up the SMS allowance...just a thought.

Andy

andy_mobile@tiscali.co.uk

[Telyx]

I think the SMS program that comes with the Palm Mobile Internet Kit just sends SMS to the phone to be sent the regular way, making text entry a little easier (if you're used to Graffiti) than double- or triple-tapping number buttons.

I've actually never used it. I use SMS so rarely anyway.

[Andy_Maxwell]

Cheers mate, appreciate the reply :)

Andy

andy_mobile@tiscali.co.uk

[Ian Tollett]

Andy (and anyone else),

I've just bought the Ericsson T68 (same as T68i w/o the pictures) and am sending e-mail from the Palm M500 via a Bluetooth card and then the phone. This works OK but seems very slow, even though I've got GPRS enabled on the phone.

My guess is that the e-mails are not going via GPRS because (a) it seems as slow as before the GPRS was enabled and (b) when I send/receive an e-mail there is no change to the data counter on the phone. This does show a change when I use WAP, so I think the GPRS is working.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Ian

[Telyx]

Here's my guess, Ian...

I have T-Mobile phone service here in the U.S. Using the built-in microbrowser/GPRS in my phone would involve enabling the GPRS data service on my account, which I haven't done, and when using GPRS the phone would automatically connect to T-Mobile's equipment (server?).

When I send/receive e-mail currently (Palm m125 to Motorola p280 via infrared), my e-mail program is set to use my Earthlink dial-up phone number and username/password. I log in automatically, using stored settings in the m125, and my e-mail uploads/downloads (and web pages download) at 9.6K, much slower than GPRS would be.

It sounds like you're probably not using GPRS to send/receive e-mail from your m500. That would explain why you're not seeing a change in your data counter and your connection is slow.

[Ian Tollett]

I'm sure you're right Telyx but does anyone know how to get the GPRS to work??!