Blackberry 8700

christophp

I am leaving my job in March and with it my much loved Blackberry 8700. I have no current mobile phone contract and would like a recommendation on a contract that will give me a good deal on a new Blackberry 8700. I need a deal that will give me unlimited internet use, not just a range of sites, and free calls to landlines. I have no need for a camera or any music facility. Cheap phone calls, e mail and unlimited surfing are my priority. I travel by train a lot and web borowsing on the blackberry is my main activity on long train journeys.

gjchester

Blackberrys work well as they are tied into the corporate back end of your works email system. They may not be the same if your not on a corporate system. They work, just not as integrated.

You'd need to decide how many minutes of calls you need, how much you want to pay a month and how long you want to be in contract for before you can get any recommendation.

christophp

Thanks that is helpful.

I will probably make 20 hours a month of calls and am looking for a contract for a year. If I can keep the cost at about £30 per month that would be good.

gjchester

20 hours of calls is 1200 minutes a month, thats pretty high. On a 12 month contract you'll be looking at around £60 a month plus. Looking at 18 or 24 months you may get it down to £40 (t-mobile are the cheapest) but that is just for calls. You need to add blackberry email and web browsing as an extra on top to most of them so you'll be lucky to get it for less than £50 a month on an 18 month contract.

spirit

gjchester wrote: »

Blackberrys work well as they are tied into the corporate back end of your works email system. They may not be the same if your not on a corporate system. They work, just not as integrated.

You'd need to decide how many minutes of calls you need, how much you want to pay a month and how long you want to be in contract for before you can get any recommendation.

Not true I'm sorry gjchester. blackberries can either be enterprise versions which will run off your Company's BES server or there are Prosumer versions which are net based. You can have your own hotmail or whatever e-mail you have integrated on to it.

Some of my customers have BES but quite a lot of the 'individuals' have them set up on the web (I do this for them). However if you get one and put the sim in, it will prompt you to run the setup wizard which means you can do the integration yourself.

diamonds

Orange dont do BIS via desktop connector, they only do BES via online https://www.blackberry.orange.co.uk

£30 is not realistic...
If you need 1200 mins get a plan that gives you unlimited landlines thrown in Orange Panther £40 then BB add on £4.89

Vodafone deals are mainly unlimited texts not landlines so no suitable for your needs


o2 1200 + landlines + £10 BB usage = £54.05 18 months


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gjchester

spirit wrote: »

Not true I'm sorry gjchester. blackberries can either be enterprise versions which will run off your Company's BES server or there are Prosumer versions which are net based. You can have your own hotmail or whatever e-mail you have integrated on to it.

Some of my customers have BES but quite a lot of the 'individuals' have them set up on the web (I do this for them). However if you get one and put the sim in, it will prompt you to run the setup wizard which means you can do the integration yourself.

I realise that, (as I said in my post) it's just if your used to the enterprise version (as the OP was), just having the consumer version will seems a pale comparison. All the nice corporate links to calendering, internal network etc will not be there, it's just an email phone in consumer mode.