MY E-mail Setup is different from the User Guide & I do not have a browser option or Icon.

Question

As per the user guide:
 Get Set up on Your BlackBerry Smartphone*
To begin:
If there’s an Email Setup option on your smartphone’s home screen, click it.
OR in the setup wizard (which starts automatically the first time you turn on your smartphone), on the email setup screen, select I want to create or add an email address.
Click Next, then if necessary, click Update Now.
If necessary, click Create New Account.
To accept the terms of the license agreement, select Yes and click I Agree.
Set up your email addressIf you want to link an existing, supported email address with your smartphone - you will need to
Click Add An Email Account if necessary, or simply type in your existing email address and password.
Click Next.
If you want to create a new email address for your BlackBerry smartphone (i.e. [email protected]), you will need to
Click Create a BlackBerry email address OR Click I would like to create a new BlackBerry email address.
Type the user name that you want to appear before the @ sign in your new BlackBerry email address.
If necessary, type a password for this email address.
If necessary, select or choose secret question.
If necessary, provide an answer for the secret question you have selected. Click Next
select I want to create or add an email address ( I Dont see this option).
Only option i have is :
1. I want to use a work email account with a BlackBerry Emterprise server.
2. I want to skip email setup.
So here i am unable to configure my email account (disadvantage).
Second option i can open my emails thru the brower option, where as here i nither see the browser icon on the phone. (disadvantage).
Please advice as what to do? How do i go about with this?
Its something like having a dead BB.
Please help.

Answer 1

therech wrote:
So what you are saying is that you "have" to sign up for a BB email address?  to get incoming mail from a POP3 like Yahoo?
No that is not how it works.
for your device you need :
a mobile phone subscription (for phone calls & SMS)
a data plan (for MMS)
a BlackBerry Dataplan with BIS account (for all BlackBerry technologies including receiving emails from any email provider)
in item 3, you can if you like ask for a BlackBerry email (= RIM acting as a regular email provider) but I do not recommend it since the features are less than a normal email provider (you can't view those emails except on your device).
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