I have an old iPhone 3S and it doesn't seem to be able to hook up with iCloud

Need help in figuring out why my old iPhone will not hook up with my desk-top and Laptop.
Since I jumped into the OS-5 it is also having great difficulty with sending & recieving mail.
I deleted the accounts to start with a clean slate but I do not have a prompt for icloud where shown on AppleHelp.
I have synched it a number of times to both computers to get it to kick on. Any clues other than buying a 4S
Peace
Mairo

Do you have a 3GS running iOS5?

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