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No Blackberry

Eric got me all curious about switching to a Blackberry instead of to the Treo 650 (or 700 or whatever comes next). I called Sprint today to find out about my options and was told that my “unlimited vision” data doesn’t cover the Blackberry. You have to add an additional $45/month plan just for the Blackberry data. That basically adds $540/year to the cost of the device - no thanks.

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Posted July 22nd, 2005 @ 10:29 AM

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echeng adds this Comment:

that’s lame. data’s data!

err… unless you have a blackberry, i guess.

July 22nd, 2005 at 2:28 pm
Serge Baranovsky adds this Comment:

Why you don’t just go with a Pocket PC phone?

I’m with T-Mobile and pay only $20/mo for unlimited wireless internet including WiFi HotSpots.

I tried a Smartphone but then moved to a Pocket PC phone which I’m very happy with.

I went for i-mate JAM Pocket PC phone - the smallest PPC phone available - and it IS really small - which can be be used with any GSM wireless provider.

July 22nd, 2005 at 4:31 pm
Alex adds this Comment:

Where is the keyboard?

I tried a bunch of Pocket PC devices when I was doing some UI design for a company that creates Pocked PC software and I was amazed at how bad the devices were. Just my opinion.

July 22nd, 2005 at 4:33 pm
Bill Manning adds this Comment:

I went through using a BlackBerry 7100t and went back to qa Treo (all on T-Mobile). Both devices have there pros and cons. For Basic email it was great. As for its PIM features it actually was bad. I like an agenda view that allows me to my calendar and my tas

July 22nd, 2005 at 7:33 pm

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