BlackBerry 8120 Smartphone wi - fi problems - have I been a little reckless?

Evening everyone.

I had a great idea: why not to buy a smartphone wi - fi enabled, so I can stop lugging 3 bits of electronic deception on with me all day. So, after some research, called ebay and before long a BEAUTIFUL O2-locked 8120 pearl arrived. I jumped my PAYG O2 simcard, put music on it and synced my newspaper and everything seemed fine, until I tried to use the Wi - fi:

-Why can I get blackbery sites to load? A Wi - Fi connection is certainly independent of my carrier or BIS/BES? It seems to connect (it says its connected and I get an IP address in the diagnosis) but then why can't any other site (regardless of the status HTTP/TLS/HTTPs)?

I went through a lot of resets and settings but at the moment, I have a very expensive dairy that makes calls, rather something that I can use to surf the web (and thus be productive when it is out of the office). The 02 website recommends a BONE which is a previous version of my current operating system (I've got v4.3.0.94, & the Desktop is the current version) and that seems just wrong. Well I found a version more up-to-date is not 02 (and I worry that this would be trash all this).

I'm not registered to any BIS/BES as I wanted to combine a PDA, MP4 Player and phone, and thought as a Wi - Fi browser would allow me to check my email, etc. when out and about, it was the answer to my questions. I wonder now if I was a little fiery and needs to spend ££ s £ on etc data plans.

Can anyone tell why the connection to the you internet is so difficult? It's just that if I look, my girlfriend will let me...

Many thanks in advance,

Paul.

That's all! Thank you very much for this - I now used it in several hot spots, and it's been great.

Much appreciated for you the time and effort - such a simple solution really seems so thanks a lot again.

P.

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