Hello Everyone From Sunny Scotland!
 

Hi Everyone

I'm Sally.

I took delivery of a Pink 8120 Pearl yesterday and it's driving me nuts - lol

I especially wanted it on time before I set off on holiday this Saturday so I could keep in touch with my children and partner when I'm away - using MSN Messenger and Hotmail - but it's not letting me access it says something about not supportin javascripts??

I think I really need a mentor to hold my hand with this gadget!!! lol

Having said that I've set up two email addresses this morning - one for Orange and one for yahoo.

I thought that was quite clever of me! LOL



Sally
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Hi sally, welcome to BBF :)

It's sunny in Scotland? Overcast day with rain predicted here in Northern Ireland!

Msn is tricky on a BB but a solution is on the way although it does not appear to be available for uk users yet. As you are going on holiday this Saturday I suggest that you download the free trial of jivetalk ( you can run almost all instant messengers through this) in order to have it for your holiday. The trail is for 14 days I think.

Hotmail email can now be added to blackberry, I set mine up a fortnight ago. If you have no joy use their hotmail mobile site not the full site maybe.

Are you aware that using your data abroad is £8 per mb with Orange? With this in mind it might be a good idea to keep your use to a minimum.

Hello Foxglove

Thanks for your reply and the welcome.

I'm not going on holiday out of the UK, unfortunately! Just to visit someone in the family who is ill.

I'd still like to keep in touch though, so even if I could access hotmail emails that would be great, as most of my emails come to that address.

For messenger I see it's got a Yahoo icon so I could use that if I really needed chat?

When I upgraded with Orange, they said something about having to change the settings each time I emailed in order for it to go through Orange and not Blackberry itself, do you know anything about this?

How can I set up Hotmail email now? Is this easy?

Thanks again!

Sally
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I gotta correct that, the £8 per mb is for outside Europe I believe. It should be cheaper within the EU. Best thing to do is to contact Orange to clarify and find out if you have to add on an international roaming tariff to your account for better rates abroad.

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Yes hotmail can be set up now in the same way your other accounts were set up. Try it and see. Mine works fine.

I have no idea what orange are talking about there.

Yes you can use yahoo if the person you are contacting has yahoo too and I believe you may be able to run msn through yahoo too. Try it out and see.

Oooh thanks Foxglove - at least I've managed to set up the hotmail accounts that I have, that's always something.

So far this morning, I've managed to set up three email accounts, turn off Sure Text, change the wallpaper - lol - now just have to try and fathom out how to change the ringtones and the SMS message alert - oh and input all my contacts's details into the address book! Arrrgh!

Sal
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You are doing great :)

This link will help you set your sms message alert.

http://www.blackberryfaq.com/index.p...profiles%29%3F

I love the suretype, it's a breeze once you get used to it.

T-Mobile UK charge a similar amount. BUT - certainly for email, the BB is very efficient. You get sent plain text versions of email, and the data is compressed too. I was in Africa for a week last year. I used email as 'normal' (maybe 20-30 a day during the visit) and BB Messenger for chatting. My total data roaming bill was ~6 UKP. Not bad.

Just keep away from downloading attachments, browsing the web, using BB or Google Maps, maybe JiveTalk, etc if you go aboard.

John

If you've got it syncing to a PC, it's much easier in my experience to do all that on the PC (eg using Outlook or whatever) and just sync it to the BB.

John

welcome to the forum
we are always happy to help

Morning Everyone

Thanks for the helpful replies.

I've today now managed to sort out the alerts, add all the contacts to the address book (at last! lol) and just read about the holster - I thought it was just a normal little black sleeve!

I'm loving this so far, now that I've managed to turn off Sure-Type.

The only thing I have to get used to is the keyboard, as I'm normally used to just texting really fast on the normal mobile phones.

Now, going to have a search for some really good ringtones! lol

Sally
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Hi Sally

For "noises" (ringtones/alerts) by all means try the link in my signature here. Should work right on your BlackBerry's browser too :-)

I had a Suretype enabled Blackberry for a while (now an 8300). I was never a great mobile texter, but found the Suretype thing and BlackBerry keyboard really effective after a few days. It even does clever stuff like build it's dictionary automatically from email you send and receive.

John

Hi John

Thanks a lot, I'll go take a look.

Does anyone know how I can overcome this problem.

I have Yahoo Messenger icon already on my BB, and when I try to connect it says: Connection Error, Please Ensure Device Time Is Correct?

Sal
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Does anyone know why I might be getting this message??

Thanks,

Sally
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Hi Sally, don't have an answer for you, but just wanted to welcome you to BBF.

That is an error message I have not seen before, but this forum is the right place to find the answer.

Good luck, and welcome!

Is the tiime and date right? Ok, I'm sure it looks right :-) But might you have forgotten to set the time zone too in the time/date settings on the BB? That's all I can think of at the moment.