I’ve just bought a new mobile, I’ve never really got into mobile phones - they cost too much to do anything useful with apart from make calls. However, Tesco have an offer of 1000 club card points on every Tesco mobile phone. As 1000 points can net you £40 worth of tokens spending £15 on a phone seems a good idea. In fact I splashed out on a Samsung m150 at an enormous £25 (with 20p PAYG credit on it). I figured the extra tenner was worth paying for the camera, MP3 player, bluetooth and other goodies.

However, I can’t get the bluetooth to sync with Samsung’s PC Studio - it says try a new version but the update always fails to find the site

The bluetooth works as I’ve copied (using XP) some MP3’s on. I say “some”, with 20M memory and no support for an extra card you’re quite a lot short of a full album!

And now I can’t collect my emails. I created and tested (with OutlookExpress) an account on my server and on the phone I’ve set up a profile:

APN prepay.tescomobile.com (I thought it should be tesco-mobile but that gave DNS errors) tescowap / password 4.2.2.1 and 8.8.8.8 as DNS’s

and an account:

pop3 to my server though I can’t decide if it should be pop3.myserver.co.uk or just myserver.co.uk (OE just wants myserver.co.uk) The other thing I dither on is whether the account is mymobile@myserver.co.uk or just mymobile (OE wants mymobile@myserver.co.uk)

Anyway all I get is Email network fail.

If anyone has any hints feel free to comment. NB “buy an iphone” isn’t an acceptable comment unless you have on a low tariff PAYG for less than £25 - considering the M150 was effectively -£15 I’m not sure I want to pay £25!

I can update this, I changed the APN  to tescomobile222 and I get the same message - looks like my logon to tesco’s net is wrong…