A friend had his phone stolen and I had the same model as he wanted, so i sold mine and bought an LG KP500 cookie since I wanted a cheap smartphone. I do love it as it has handwriting recognition, an acceptable camera (no flash or focus unfortunately) but a memory card slot at the side so I can quickly get it out and copy stuff from the card onto the pc and put music on the card. most smartphones have the card buried away underneath the battery so that it has to be taken apart, so this was a big selling point to me.
The supplied pc suite software is mediocre at best as it keeps crashing on my windows vista pc, but I did manage to get the contacts and important settings onto it after a few tries. USB connection speed is very slow at best, so having the removable memory card really solves all this.
The email settings were a bit more difficult to set up so here they are for those using hotmail or gmail via a belgian base account. (Thanks to P. Suhas from the microsoft mobile support helpdesk for the settings and quick reply to help request)
| allow reply | off | |
| request receipt | off | |
| retrieve intervall | none | |
| retrieve amount | 10 | |
| include message | on | |
| include attachments | on | |
| auto retrieve | off | |
| new email notification | on | |
| account name | hotmail | gmail |
| my name | full email address | full email address |
| user name | full email address | full email address |
| password | ********* | ********* |
| email address | full email address | full email address |
| reply email address | full email address | full email address |
| outgoing mail server | mail.internetmail.be | mail.internetmail.be |
| incoming mail server | pop3.live.com | pop.gmail.com |
| maximum receive size | 300kb (or less) | 300kb (or less) |
| mailbox type | POP3 | POP3 |
| save to server | on | on |
| save sent mail into | handset | handset |
| access points | BASE GPRS EMAIL | BASE GPRS EMAIL |
| Email to retrieve | header only | header only |
| auto retrieve | off | off |
| SMTP port | 25 | 25 |
| SMTP TLS/SSL | off | off |
| incoming server port | 995 | 995 |
| incoming TLS/SSL | on | on |
| SMTP authentication | off | off |
| APOP secure login | off | off |
and the BASE GPRS EMAIL settings are
| connection title | BASE GPRS EMAIL |
| bearer | GPRS |
| Authentication | No authentication |
| APN | gprs.base.be |