can you explain to me about Blackberrys' please ?

pennymakespounds

i'm not techie minded so please be gentle !!

i've got a normal mobile and tariff ... t mob flext 35 costing me next to nothing as on cashback deal with e2save , quidco etc .


Run my emails at home on laptop with aol broadband .

run my own little business .. and working with a company where i use an email address from their system .. and now need to be out & about .. and able to pick up emails ,, certainly work ones' from their system .. and ideally from my aol personal one as well.. ... at any time & any place 24/7

what do i need ?

where do i buy it .. shop or online deal with cashbacks .. quidco etc ?

what is " running cost " .. ie every time i presumably " log on " ..and do incoming and outgoing emails ... what does it cost

etc etc

help/ advise most welcome please !.
thanks

gaming_guy

here is some info on blackberrys

Jon_01

If you buy a Blackberry they come on their own tariff which includes all the data (the BB talks to the BB server all the time, so the data cost without the tariff would be prohibitive).
Once your BB is up, you go to the RIM website (RIM are Blackberry) and open an email acc with them, you then point this acc at your usual email acc. It checks every few seconds and if you have new mail it forwards it on to you. You will need to check that the email acc’s you want to use are supported by RIM/Blackberry.
You can have 10 email acc’s setup. I don’t know if AOL is supported or not.
If your company uses an exchange server you may also have issues there, but ask what passes for tech support there to find out, also ask about any firewalls they might have in place…

Babboon

If you are on T-Mobile then a blackberry would cost you around £17.50 per month on top of your flex 35 deal.
You need the Web N Walk to cover the data useage and the blackberry service to get the e-mails sent to your mobile.

An alternative is O2 which offered a blackberry service for £10 (inc 75mb data usage) on tariffs £35 & over. Also, rumor has it that Orange may be doing some promotions on the Blackberry's in the next month or so.

zobo_3

Babboon wrote:

If you are on T-Mobile then a blackberry would cost you around £17.50 per month on top of your flex 35 deal.
You need the Web N Walk to cover the data useage and the blackberry service to get the e-mails sent to your mobile.

I have a blackberry on Tmobile flext35 and pay an extra £7.50 you don't need web n walk unless you want to surf the internet which i hate doing on a mobile:o

hth