Newbie Just Got BB Today -- Basic Questions

Question

I just got an 8120 and I have questions.
1. If I don't have a microSD card, I guess the address book, calendar and email stored is stored in memory. If I get a card, do these things stay in memory or move to the card?
2. Can I turn off the flash on the camera.
3. My email comes to a company domain, but the nameservers tell it to go to a Yahoo server. I read my email in Outlook which gets it from the Yahoo server. (I only barely understand what I just wrote, so be gentle with me.) I get lots of email (even with the spam filers on) -- maybe 200 messages a day. On my desktop, I go through it off and on all day long and deal with what's important. Will the BB get my email from the Yahoo servers or from Outlook? If I delete a message on the BB, is it also deleted on my desktop if I synchronize everything? Is there a wireless way to keep the two sync'd?....Or am I thinking about my email set-up and use the wrong way?
4. I also have a regular Yahoo account which I don't use much. Can those messages come to the BB too or does that complicate things? Or is the preferred way to read the Yahoo messages in the BB browser?
5. Is 8GB the maximum microSD card the BB will take? Is there any reason not to get the biggest card? (I once bought a PC with 4GB of memory only to find out that Windows XP could only see 3GB of it.)

Answer 1

As the previous poster stated,
1. They stay on the phone. Soon to be released OS 4.5 will allow BES clients and maybe BIS to save to the media card.
2. Camera settings: Turn on your camera=>press your Application Key (7 dots)=> Default Flash Settings (Off, On, Automatic).
3 + 4. Outlook allows you to retrieve your email from the yahoo server. It is a program that resides on your pc. If you don't turn on your pc, there's no email on it. Email programs are usually set up to retrieve email from servers when the user turns on his/hers pc and logs on. Since you have a personal yahoo account it's not much different, except you don't access with Outlook useless it's set up to route it's mail there. I'm guessing you log on online.
You can access your personal yahoo account from any where in the world by accessing the internet with either a wired or wireless pc/laptop/pda/cell phone or blackberry browser. Imagine your blackberry as a mobile pc with an email program installed but with more options. I'm not familiar with BES but it you have a BIS account, just add your yahoo address to it and it will redirect or if not , see if you can forward it to your berry thru your yahoo account options.
Your berry can conceivably access any email account availible. The only restriction is usually an IT policy.
I have hotmail, gmail, 3 shaw(my internet provider) and my mobility.blackberry.net account accessible from my 8130.
5. 8 GB is the largest card the latest OS will recognize. I have no idea if you could access all of a 16 GB card or if it would even work. Your Media Card Info will only display what it can recognize according to what version OS your running.
Hope this helps.
Message Edited by frfghtr on 06-02-2008 11:10 AM