Accessing Gmail via T-Mobile t-zones · 227 words posted 07/26/2006 10:51 PM
I got a Motorola PEBL today and the first thing I did was set up Gmail access. I’ll post the steps here to get them into google. (This is nothing new; Gmail Mobile is covered here and here and there, but I couldn’t find information pertaining to my particular plan).
Assuming you have the $5.99 t-zones plan, you have two options for checking gmail:
- Login to Gmail and turn on POP access, then add an email account on your PEBL (Menu > Get More > My Email). This launches a POP client on the PEBL and checks your Gmail inbox. Unfortunately, when I tried this the PEBL recognized every single email I’ve ever received, with oldest first. You can filter this to a degree be changing your POP setting in Gmail to “Enable POP only for mail that arrives from now on.”
- The better way: skip the POP access and login to Gmail Mobile via t-zones: Main Menu > Settings > Tools > WebAccess > Go To URL > http://m.gmail.com. T-zones only supports WAP—if you try to load an HTML page you’ll get an error. But since Gmail Mobile serves its pages as WML your PEBL will be able to load the page, and you won’t find an avalanche in your inbox.
As Engadget points out, if you check your Gmail via WML you even get the benefit of viewing your attachments.
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