How To Setup Email on Windows Phone

Just got a shiny new Windows Phone 7 device? Loving the fancy animations and all but thinking it might be time to get some actual work done? Well, if we must. In this video, we’ll show you how to setup that all important first step to making your phone more business-oriented; setting up email. Windows Phone is actually pretty intuitive when it comes to email setup, but we’ll give you a quick run-through just in case.

I. Setup Email

1. On the phone, head to Settings.

2. Select Email and Accounts.

3. Select Add an Account.

4. Choose which type of email account this is (select Outlook if this is an exchange account by the way, and if it is none of the options select Other Account).5. If you selected any of the accounts besides Other Account, simply put in your email and password and it should automatically set everything up for you.

6. If you selected Other Account, it will attempt to set everything up automatically, but if it doesn’t be prepared to put in your email account settings (these can be found by googling your email provider’s name and the words mail settings after it or by contacting your business network administrator).

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2 thoughts on “How To Setup Email on Windows Phone”

  1. dude its not cool to keep dissing a phone like that…the setup is so much easier and most users probably won’t have the need to do all that, and I understand that you are showing this for the basic users. in the special case where the person actually may need to go in the advanced set ups page, you may want to address that, and keep it from confusing the average consumer

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