Rogers MyMail

[twentynine]

Anyone using MyMail to get access to your email on your PDA? I'm curious as to whether it is worth getting. I have a new PDA/phone with Pocket PC / Windows Mobile 2003.

Are there charges for connecting while roaming in the U.S.?

 

[Meister]

Anyone using MyMail to get access to your email on your PDA? I'm curious as to whether it is worth getting. I have a new PDA/phone with Pocket PC / Windows Mobile 2003.

Are there charges for connecting while roaming in the U.S.?

I used to have a PDA phone with Pocket PC until it was stolen. I set up mine with pop3 so that it goes directly to my office mail server and checks e-mails, but leaving a copy on the server. I only checked e-mails when I told it to and I limited it to 2kb. If I wanted to see the whole e-mail I then downloaded that particular e-mail completely. I had to do it this way otherwise the tons of spam would have killed me in charges.

Data transfer in the US is a killer. Avoid as much as possible. Yes there are roaming charges for data transfer in the US and there is really no plan that covers it.

You also have to be careful if your phone has a GPS, it goes towards data transfer big time, especially in the US.

Currently, I am looking into hooking up Skype to a Laptop and use that in the US.

 

[twentynine]

I used to have a PDA phone with Pocket PC until it was stolen. I set up mine with pop3 so that it goes directly to my office mail server and checks e-mails, but leaving a copy on the server. I only checked e-mails when I told it to and I limited it to 2kb. If I wanted to see the whole e-mail I then downloaded that particular e-mail completely. I had to do it this way otherwise the tons of spam would have killed me in charges.

Sounds like a good set up. I use a pop3 account also. I was using their MyMail Desktop Assistant to push email to the PDA, but I can see how that would eat up my quota.

Data transfer in the US is a killer. Avoid as much as possible. Yes there are roaming charges for data transfer in the US and there is really no plan that covers it.

Dang, they never said anything about that. Now that I understand it better, I see why there are roaming charges. I might switch from their Canada One Rate plan to their Digital One Rate plan... that should take care of the roaming charges, up to the quota at least. It seems I am traveling to the U.S. on business ever more frequently.

You also have to be careful if your phone has a GPS, it goes towards data transfer big time, especially in the US.

Yes, I have the iPaq 6515 with GPS.

This doesn't make sense -- there shouldn't be any use of the phone's GSM/GPRS to access the GPS. Normal GPS receivers don't, nor do GPS cards for PDAs, so I can't imagine a built in GPS would be that way. It's not like I'm using IE on the PDA to provide the mapping; I downloaded Pocket Streets.

 

[twentynine]

I just tested the GPS with the GPRS shut off. It still works. So there is no way the GPS would contribute to the data transfer.

 

[Meister]

I just tested the GPS with the GPRS shut off. It still works. So there is no way the GPS would contribute to the data transfer.

This is what I thought too and I had lengthy discussions with Rogers and they assured me that it will add to your data traffic. I wasn't going to try it for a month to find out I was wrong.

btw, the 6515 was my phone that was stolen. My last bill was 900 dollars before it was stolen due to my extensive travel in the US. In a way I'm glad it was stolen because I don't have the discipline to cut back. So now I have puritanic motoslvr.

One thing youmay want to look into is a mini WIFI card for your mini slot. You can then access the internet at hot spots.

 

[twentynine]

This is what I thought too and I had lengthy discussions with Rogers and they assured me that it will add to your data traffic.

Well, they're not rocket scientists over there at Rogers. I'll keep my skepticism on that for now.

This phone is replacing my lost 6525, which has WiFi. Since the models are similar I wrongly assumed this one had WiFi too. Doh! I've never found too many WiFi spots that were free, especially in airports and hotels, but I might just go for the WiFi card because the rare free spot is like a thirsty man finding an oasis... or a horny man finding an SP.

 

[WinterHawk]

For an HP iPAQ hw6515h, the GPS unit does not have anything to do with rogers. I resync mine with both my laptop and home PC. And since I have WiFi at home, I have WiFi card from Socket that works quite well. As for free WiFi spots, Denney's on Hurontario has it and I thought most Starbucks do to, although I haven't tried there yet.

I picked up Microsoft's Streets & Tips 2006 and use the downloaded maps. Unfortunately on the 6515 you can't get voice directions with this software. My next purchase will be the TomTom Navigator 5.0 that will give me a lot more features include voice directions.

 

[Meister]

For an HP iPAQ hw6515h, the GPS unit does not have anything to do with rogers.

I don't know why Rogers kept telling me that GPS runs through the Rogers network? Sorry, if I gave you the wrong info.

btw, I downloaded TomTom as a torrent, it worked good.