Email Setup

For a new phone, I got one of the Motorola Razr phones, in pink, I love it. It's sleek, slick and very pink.

Previously I had a Motorola V220 and the menu options on the RAZR are exactly the same as on my previous phone. It doesn't come with a whole lot of games or anything really exciting, but this thing is for talking and messaging, not playing games. Bluetooth definately is a step-up because now I can talk on the phone with friends for hours and not have to worry about having to hold the phone to my ear, a small purchase at my local store solved that problem. Now I look like one of those people that walks around the house and talks to myself.

I'm not a big text messaging person, but I use it to communicate with my husband. I send him notes every once in a while and a requirement that I personally have is that I need to be able to send him messages. My husband has a phone with a different cellphone carrier and in order for me to message his phone I have to be able to text message via email.

So I get the phone and bring it home. I have the bluetooth wireless headset and I'm ready to send my husband a text message. One problem, I can't put an email in the text message phone area... On the V220 I could simply just type in the email address and the message would send, this obviously isn't going to work.

I called technical support.

The folks over at technical support were very helpful. They sent me some GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) settings and then tried sending me the MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) settings over the phone. The GPRS settings transfered perfectly over and installed just fine. The MMS settings didn't. Upon trying to add the MMS settings to my phone I received the following error: "Exceeds Maximum limit cannot add MMS Server Profile."

Technical support service technician told me that he has never had anyone get that error message before... Please hold for three to five minutes... Technical support technician returned and advised that I return the phone for an exchange.

I was then told that they couldn't give me the MMS settings and so email from my phone wouldn't work... That if I wanted email, I was going to have to return my phone for a different one. This was not cool.

So I fixed the email problem. My browser and internet connections was working just fine, so I figured that I could configure email settings to use my gmail account.

Want to know how I added gmail access to the cell phone?