"David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" <d4g4hd@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Mark Stephens <no@way.com> wrote:
>
>> "J B" <jb@privacy.net> wrote in message
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>> > "David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" <d4g4hd@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in
>> > message
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>> >
>> >> Easiest and cheapest way IME is to use an email service with a wap
>> >> portal.
>> >
>> > I used mail2web/wap to get all my onetel e mails a couple of weeks ago
>> > in
>> > Cyprus.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > J B
>> >
>>
>> Thanks for the advice. So can you get WAP in any country - is it part of
>> the mobile phone signal?
>
> You can get GPRS WAP (which is what would be cheapest here) in many
> countries- maybe even most countries with GSM signals- but it does
> depend on the roaming agreements with your phone company. It's been a
> long time since I couldn't get a roaming GPRS signal, despite GPRS
> existing in those particular countries. I couldn't get one in Slovenia a
> few months ago for some reason, and I'm sure they have it there. Also,
> GPRS roaming may not be available (or work well) on all carriers in that
> country, so it's worth trying another if it doesn't work on the first
> network you pick up.
>
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Thanks for the help.
I went into Carphonewarehouse today and asked about this. Although polite,
the staff had no idea what they were talking about. Firstly, said the
cheapest PAYG phone would do ok, then changed his mind - had a word with his
colleagues and they tried to sell me one for nearly £100 as I would "need it
to do WAP".
I declined and checked on the interweb when I returned home, to find the one
I initially asked about would have done fine (a Motorola Razr).
Anyway, I found an old Siemens I had from a while back and went online via
the Orange PAYG sim I had forgotten about. Straight into Gmail. The only
problem was that I can only enter numerical passwords for some reason.
Changed my password via the main PC and Voila - I can access email on the
phone.
So, I can give my mum this old phone - total cost? £0! Yay!