Do I keep the Blackberry or go back to the iPhone?
My Vodafone business contract is coming to an end soon and I'm seriously looking at reducing my monthly spend on mobile phone bills. I have a .Mac (MobileMe) account which currently pushes all my email to the Vodafone Blackberry service and thence onto my Curve. As MobileMe is an IMAP push email service, to the iPhone only at the moment, I really don't need a Blackberry service. The trouble is I like my Blackberry. I also like the iPhone, I have a JailBroken 2G model with a PAYG Orange sim for backup purposes. My BB Curve is unlocked to any GSM network. So where to go next?
After some research it would seem to o2 and a sim only Simplicity Online 20 with a free "Unlimited" web bolt on, for £20 a month give or take a few pence, and it's only a 30 day contract.
This gives me 600 minutes of calls and 1000 text messages plus enough bandwidth a month to cover my data usage.
This represents a significant saving over my current contract, does not tie me in to a 12 or 18 month contract and puts me on to what is at the moment the only network supporting the iPhone. Plus it gives me EDGE coverage which Vodafone has never managed.
But I like my Blackberry Curve and a Blackberry only works with a Blackberry email service.
Well actually no it doesn't. Some Googling found at least 2 alternative email clients for the Blackberry that will access POP and IMAP mail servers.
http://www.logicprobe.org/proj/logicmail LogicMail
http://www.tiggit.com/tiggitmail/index.html Tiggit I'm going to give these a try. Hopefully they will give me my .mac email over the o2 data network and allow me to continue using the Curve until Apple release iPhone 3 or the Palm Pre goes on sale and is actually as good as it looks. --
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After some research it would seem to o2 and a sim only Simplicity Online 20 with a free "Unlimited" web bolt on, for £20 a month give or take a few pence, and it's only a 30 day contract.
This gives me 600 minutes of calls and 1000 text messages plus enough bandwidth a month to cover my data usage.
This represents a significant saving over my current contract, does not tie me in to a 12 or 18 month contract and puts me on to what is at the moment the only network supporting the iPhone. Plus it gives me EDGE coverage which Vodafone has never managed.
But I like my Blackberry Curve and a Blackberry only works with a Blackberry email service.
Well actually no it doesn't. Some Googling found at least 2 alternative email clients for the Blackberry that will access POP and IMAP mail servers.
http://www.logicprobe.org/proj/logicmail LogicMail
http://www.tiggit.com/tiggitmail/index.html Tiggit I'm going to give these a try. Hopefully they will give me my .mac email over the o2 data network and allow me to continue using the Curve until Apple release iPhone 3 or the Palm Pre goes on sale and is actually as good as it looks. --
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