With a data plan from my provider, can the Alcatel do everything a smart phone does? Emails,photos, internet,text, receive photos,

Photos cannot be sent via text.
I am assuming you mean SMS when you refer text.
also assuming photos not MMS.
you should be able to send photo from smart phone using Apps like WhatsApp or Instagram using Wifi.

Hi Dennis, your internet access has different settings to calls & texts so that is why you can have the others without Internet access! The settings for Internet on your phone has to come from your service provider..........Mobile network settings - set options for data roaming, network mode & operators, access point names (APNs) and so on! Contact your service provider and get the settings for your phone sent to it from them.....have they done this?

Hi Dennis, your internet access has different settings to calls & texts so that is why you can have the others without Internet access! The settings for Internet on your phone has to come from your service provider..........Mobile network settings - set options for data roaming, network mode & operators, access point names (APNs) and so on! Contact your service provider and get the settings for your phone sent to it from them.....have they done this for you?

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You have to have a data plan and you can either have an email sent to you or a text message sent to you with the photo as an attachment. Check with your carrier to make sure you have a data plan. You might want to get an unlimited one, Photos take up quite a bit of data. You can send one by right clicking on the photo or menu while viewing the photo and then a menu will appear asking you what you want to do . You can touch SEND or ATTACH to send one. Hope this helps. You may already have a data plan, if you do make sure you set up your email so you can recieve emails on your phone. Good Luck.

It's one of two things. 1: the programing in your phone might be messed up, so you may have to take it into your provider store. Odds are though there won't be anyone smart enough to do anything about it (even though they do have the capabilities), so you might have to send it to the manufacturer. 2: Most likely your provider has blocked your internet service. Most smart phones can't send or receive MMS's if the subscriber decides to cancel there internet services. I think it's just a way to get you to pay for something you don't want. Non smart phones (that don't even have internet capabilities) are able to send and receive MMS's without having to pay for internet service at all, unfortunately most phones now are smart phone based even if they're not called as such. You don't have to get a plan for internet service, but you will end up paying for each kb you use to send and receive each MMS. If you do send and receive a lot of them you might actually be better of getting an internet plan. Ether way it sucks that we have to pay twice. I mean if we pay to send why does the other person have to pay to receive? Isn't it already payed for? Even when it's physical we don't pay to receive a package as well.

Which type of activation
1 BES(enterprise activation) (you have to contact with your BB administrator)
2 BIS(wireless activation)
follow the below instruction
GETTING STARTED
Now that you have received the BlackBerry device you have to perform the initial setup
before you can start receiving and sending emails. BlackBerry users, who selected the
BIS data plan and are only using mail.uh.edu, please see BIS initial setup heading only.
BES data plan users please skip the heading below.
BIS INITIAL SETUP
The following screen shots along with step by step instructions are intended as a guide
to setting up the mail.uh.edu account for users who selected the BIS data plan. You can
also setup other email accounts like Gmail by following the same steps listed below.
To start, scroll to the icon that reads “Set up Internet E-mail”. If you don’t see all the
icons click the menu button , all the icons should appear.

Go to, “Add An Email Account”. This will connect to the cellular providers BIS email
account setup. In short you are setting up access rights for the cellular providers BIS
server to log into your email account, retrieve your emails and push them to the
BlackBerry device.

Go to “Email Accounts” under Services. You might see the previous screen again.
Select “Add An Email Account”.

Under the heading, “Add An Email Account”. You will be asked to input your email
address and password. Your email address will be [email protected]. Click Next.

As long as you completed the information above correctly you will have successfully
configured your mail.uh.edu account. Please allow five to fifteen minutes for the emails
to start being delivered to your device.


You have two options in viewing your emails. You can check all email accounts and text
messages under the “Messages” icon. If you only want to see your mail.uh.edu emails
then click on the icon that displays your mail.uh.edu email address.
Send a test message to your mail.uh.edu email address

Check with Sprint to see if you have a data plan for MMS. Text plans are different from data plans that support MMS for sending and receiving pictures. Sounds like data is being blocked.

Definitely when you send or receive emails or multimedia messages, Rogers will change you. You could look into a data plan if you plan to do this a lot. Also remember Rogers now charges you for both incoming and outgoing text messages as well.