External battery charger for HTC Touch

I recently purchased an external battery charger for my HTC touch. Bell Mobility doesn't offer an external charger and thus far the only way to charge the battery was to plug in the phone. When the USB port broke, I was faced with either discarding the phone or finding a way to charge the battery out of the phone. For about $20 CDN, including shipping, I acquired this charger from ca-battery.com. It not only keeps my spare battery charged but will also accept the extra-capacity battery I had on hand. It's dual voltage so you can use it abroad with the appropriate adapter. Great product - great price - every HTC owner should have one!!

Receiving emails on HTC Touch

Since acquiring my HTC Touch from Bell Mobility I have been having an annoying problem sometimes where a notification of incoming email arrives but when I click on the message I get:
"Get entire message and any attachments (xK)" and then when I click on that message I get:
"Message and all attachments will download next time you connect and receive email."

When I check my email at home, the message is just an ordinary email with no attachment and I can receive and read it just fine.

Bell Mobility was not able to offer me a solution other than to try a hard reset. I discovered, however, that when you create an email account on the phone the default maximum message size is 2K. If you change this value to a higher (I used 50K), normal emails all come through just fine.

Click on Messaging (main menu list), click on the account you wish to modify, then Menu - Tools - Options. Again click on the account you wish to modify and then "Next" six times to get you to "Message Download Limit". Change the value from 2KB to a higher value (20K or 50K) and then click "Finish".