Mobile email for Nokia 7210 (UK Vodafone)..

[Steve]

hey, umm.. My Girlfriends recently moved back to the states with her family. I hope, too, to move there sometime next year, but until then, our relationship based very much around fone calls, emails and IM's... which sucks! But hey, tis short-term! :p ..

Anyhow, enough 'small talk'!

Basically, she is on US Cellular, in Knoxville, TN. Now they must obviously SUCK, but it sounds rediculous that she can't txt (sms) me, in England. I don't quite get it, because everyone else i've ever known, in 20 odd countries never had a problem texting me, or w/e. But its 'the way it is', so i gotta deal with it. She says could email from her fone, tho. Now i've never used email on my fone before - never needed to! I checked into the email side of things on my fone, assuming it'd be simply Pop3 Access, connected via GPRS. Seems its not like that @ all... Certainly not on this 7210?! I used to have a T68i, which i wish i never got rid of (i hate this 7210, but i'm stuck with it til January). So basically, all I wanna do, is send and recieve text based emails, preferably via my current Pop3 addresses (if possible). If not I could deal with a new account! I've been reading around UK Vodafone sites, and they have 'Vodafone Mail', but it appears to be a glorified Voicemail service, which i don't want. Could any help me out here?

Must be some UK dudes, or anyone else who's got some info, it'd be much appreciated.

Cheers!

[Steve]

OK, does anyone know anything about Mobile email. Preferably NOT involving my Network operator.