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iphone & web browsing

by B123456H Apr 8, 2008 4:38AM PDT

I've got a cellphone that makes calls, has a basic gps, and has a basic web browser (it uses the cell tower for the internet connection). My friend just got an iphone (ATT) and he is wanting to be able to check his e-mail and get local weather info from the cell tower data connection, not wifi. Is that even possible? His old phone was able to do so, and how do i get the iphone to do that? Or is that 3G wishing?

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Doesn't anyone read the manual these days
by mrmacfixit Forum moderator Apr 8, 2008 10:23AM PDT

the iPhone has a weather button on the home screen.

It says, wait for it, weather. Guess what happens when you touch that button?

It gets the, wait for it, weather!

It gets its information wirelessly from an AT & T, wait for it, cell tower.

Oh, and before you ask, the weather data it pulls up can be customized so that you only get the weather for the particular location that you want.

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by B123456H Apr 8, 2008 1:37PM PDT

ok, how do i set up the e-mail client to get data via the tower? Will it work with a comcast e-mail account?

btw, you post was just a little sarcastic. I'm a 100% iphone noob. I only held it long enough to enter the passcode on my wifi network.

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by mrmacfixit Forum moderator Apr 8, 2008 9:07PM PDT

Now that your phone is activated with AT&T, it is activated I assume, you just set up the mail in exactly the same way as you would set up the mail on your computer.

Full instructions are in the manual that came with the iPhone.

System Settings, Mail, Add account.

Unless you are in range of a wifi network, ALL your data will come from the AT&T wireless network, known as Edge, via one of their towers.

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