Just had to replace my aging (and totally horrible) Sony Ericsson T610 phone when it decided that life was no longer worth living.

Basically I traded it's corpse in for the cheapest bluetooth phone the local Orange shop had, a Motorola L6.

As I use my iPaq and Outlook Mobile Access to read email whilst I'm out of the office I needed to get the iPaq to talk to Orange GPRS via bluetooth and my phone.

Basically the procedure is as follows:

1) Pair the iPaq and the phone. I won't go into that here. Look in the phone and iPaq docs on how to do that.

2) Open the Connections applet (Start, Settings, Connections tab). Click on Connections.

3) Add a new modem connection

4) Choose a meaningful name for the Connection and select "Bluetooth Dialup Modem". Click on next.

5) Enter *99# in the number field. Click on use dialling rules and ensure Use dialling rules is unchecked.

6) Enter "user" and "pass" in the username and password fields (without the quotes).

7) Click on Advanced. Change the baud rate to 57600 and enter the following in the extra dial-string field +cgdcont=1,"IP","orangeinternet". This is case sensitive and the quotes need to be there. If you use another provider, then obviously the connection string will be different!

8) Click on OK and then on Finish.

9) Open Bluetooth Manager on the iPaq (on my iPaq there's a little bluetooth icon in the bottom right-hand corner) Click on that and Choose Bluetooth Manager.

10) Click and hold on the Motorola L6 Dial-up Networking icon and click on Connect. Choose the connection you created above (I called mine OrangeGPRS). You should then connect to the Internet without trouble.

All this information was gleaned from Orange Technical support who went through setting this up with me this morning. Very helpful they were......

If you have Exchange Server 2003 you can then access your email wherever you can a get GPRS signal. If you want help in setting this up, the search for Outlook Mobile Access on the Microsoft site or call us if you are in the Peterborough area! With Small Business Server 2003 OMA comes setup out of the box.

You can also access email via OMA from any WAP enabled phone. I can't get it to work on the Motorola L6 at the moment because on one of the screens the OMA OK button uses the same button as the Motorola L6 WAP Disconnect button. A slight Doh! moment there......

However I am waiting to get a Windows Mobile 5 device which will enable me to receive email on my device as it arrives in my Inbox. I'll go through that setup here when I have a device and I've had chance to play