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Cellular Phone Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / December 2006Blackberry Internet Services O2
Well, I am weighing up getting a Blackberry as an individual user, I have my eye on the 8707 which is a 3g version of the 8700. Only Vodaphone and O2 currently offer it..... I am on O2 at the moment and my contract finishes in Jan. Now, as I understand it the Blackberry Internet Services (BIS) offered via O2 are classed as 'unlimited', but unlimited really means 75mb a month, now the confusing bit is, when referring to BIS, they talk about unlimited email, internet browsing and yahoo messenger. Does that mean that any other kind of data transfer, such as using the device as a modem (through gprs) for a laptop would not be covered? For that priviledge it costs £38 a month, which include 250 minutes anytime talk.... It seems hard to find the device that I want, on the network i want. T Mobile with their webnwalk seems an excellent choice, but their phone is only 2g, and they want an extra £10 on top of their webnwalk to use the push service. Does anyone have any recommendations for similar devices, that work as well as Blackberry, but dont need to pay such high subscriptions, qwerty keyboard desirable? Gaz > Well, I am weighing up getting a Blackberry as an individual user, I have my > eye on the 8707 which is a 3g version of the 8700. Only Vodaphone and O2 > currently offer it..... [...] > Does anyone have any recommendations for similar devices, that work as well > as Blackberry, but dont need to pay such high subscriptions, qwerty keyboard > desirable? Don't bother with Blackberries and push-email. Get a real smartphone then get a T-Mobile SIM with their Web'n Walk option. You'll get a much more capable device and won't have to pay for that silly Blackberry option. Then set up the email client to check for emails every xx minutes, that should be more than enough (do you really need to be able to read your spam in real time?). Among the devices you could consider, the Nokia E61 and E70 with qwerty keyboards, 3G and wifi would be very good contenders. There are a number of Windows Mobile models that could suit you as well but i don't know them well enough to recommend a particular model. Be sure to buy your smartphone SIM-free (<http://www.expansys.com/> is a good place to buy them) and not bundled with a contract to avoid buggy custom firmwares, delayed firmware updates and all the other hassle you get with operator-branded devices. I have VTT1400 (£15pm) with X-Series Silver (£5pm) on 3 which has a 1GB limit for internet use. I'm connecting to all my pop3 email accounts (wanadoo, orange, O2, freeuk), yahoo mail & yahoo messenger via YahooGO, MSN Messenger (both msn.jar app & via OperaMini, msn are doing a beta version of messenger via the internet, mobile.live.com) and MSN Mail via OperaMini. I can set the email accounts to check for email every 30 minutes OR for 1 email account I can use MobileMail which will push all POP3 or IMAP4 mails to my mobile in real time, noticed about a 10-20 second delay.  SignatureGerry (The MOTH) >> Well, I am weighing up getting a Blackberry as an individual user, I have >> my [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > get > with operator-branded devices. On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:08:55 -0000, "Gerry \(The MOTH\)" <Gerry (TheMOTH)> wrote: >I'm connecting to all my pop3 email accounts (wanadoo, orange, O2, freeuk), >yahoo mail & yahoo messenger via YahooGO, MSN Messenger (both msn.jar app & [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >email account I can use MobileMail which will push all POP3 or IMAP4 mails >to my mobile in real time, noticed about a 10-20 second delay. http://www.theonion.com/content/node/55369 ;-) >Well, I am weighing up getting a Blackberry as an individual user, <snip> http://www.theonion.com/content/node/55369 >> Well, I am weighing up getting a Blackberry as an individual user, <snip> > > http://www.theonion.com/content/node/55369 Yeah, very funny, except for the series of contracts i have lost over the last couple of months, because I havent responded to the emails in time. Gaz |
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