Sorry - why would I want to pay £25 per month for an inferior item - that I will never actually own ?

I think that I will stick to my superior E90

What do you get for paying £12.77 per month ?

Thanks - my Nokia E90 is similar to set up

I was just confused by the charge that Tmobile try to make for email....

I've never been charged for emails. I think it depends on how your phone is set up. On my phones a N95 and a Samsung Omnia, I have an option for email.

I think possibly if your phone does not have an email function, then you can be sent emails via your text message box and that is possibly what they charge for.

You may already know how to do this, but I'll explain further below.

If you have an email option, normally in your text/picture messages section on your phone, and you have a web based email something like yahoo or hotmail etc, all you need to do, is to find out your pop and smtp settings and input them into your phones, incoming and outgoing server, just like you would if you retrieve your email through Outlook or Outlook Express.

If you have set up email through Outlook or Outlook Express, then it should be pretty easy for you to figure out. But I'll give an example below.

To recieved my Yahoo email, on my N95, I go into email settings. In the user name you need to my email username which is XXXXX (the bit before @xxxxx.co.uk), then your password in the password box. For incoming server I enter pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk (this is the incoming mail server for yahoo). The access point is the point you use for the internet, so mine is T-Mobile Internet for instance. The my mailbox name is you full email logging. The outgoing server is smtp.mail.xxxxxxx.co.uk (this is the outgoing mail server for yahoo).

I may be able to provide you with details on how to set it up on your phone, if you let me know the phone model you and email provider.

If you already know and prefer not to no problem or if you prefer to contact me off the message board via my email no problem either.

Can you please confirm that having "mobile internet" access - 1Gb per month, also allows me to set up my own ISP for mail ?

The reason that I ask is that Tmobile apparently try to charge an additional £12.77 per month for mobile email and I can't exactly figure out what you get for your £12.77

Previously - my Provider was Vodafone (paid for by work) and I just assumed that setting up email would be the same - only using Tmobile rather than Vodafone ?

Yep that's right, BUT, if you set the limit at £20, then you won't be able to retrieve voicemails as calling voicemail doesn't come out of your 600 mins, it's charged on top as if you were calling an 0845 or 0870 number, but not so expensive of course.

It is 10p ex vat upto 1 minute (even if it's a 10 sec call for instance), for example, it cost me 26p ex vat for a 2 min 35 sec voicemail retrival. Not a lot, I guess, but could well cost a few extra quid a month if you receive 3 or 4 a week.

So with Fixed - I can set a limit of £0 extra - which will mean no extra call charges are possible ?

Sounds like a good (security) idea ?

If someone pinches the phone - for example - they won't be able to run up huge bills

I get 600 mins of voice, unlimited txt and virtually unlimited mobile internet all for a mere £20 per month

plus I am on a 30 day (rolling ?) contract

With Fixed, you can control how much you spend, by setting a spending cap. With Solo, if you want to spend £50 or more for example outside your allowances you can.

Just signed up for Solo myself last month, as my contract had finished. One thing to be wary of, is that Voicemail is not free, which is a niggle, that has aggrevaited me and may lead me to cancelling.

What is the difference between "Solo" and "Solo Fixed" tarrifs ?

I am looking at Solo 20 - with unlimited txts and mobile internet at £20 per month

But can't figure out the difference