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Posted by: ajm086

Does anyone know if the blackberry messenger counts as text messages or is it used like emails? What i'm trying to know is if BBM will cost texts or if it is free? thanks.

Posted by: Jayden0606

It's not free. But it goes against your data. So if you have an unl data plan, you are covered.

Posted by: jasonjoo

Well I'm under T-Mobile, and was under the impression that SMS texts are not data? As far as I know, the BBM uses SMS texts rather than data.

Posted by: sneakerpimp

Blackberry Messenger is covered under your data plan. It's just PIN-2-PIN in chat format.

Posted by: superfire

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Originally Posted by ajm086

Does anyone know if the blackberry messenger counts as text messages or is it used like emails? What i'm trying to know is if BBM will cost texts or if it is free? thanks.

Bb messenger uses data. It is pin-to-pin messenging.

Posted by: Jayden0606

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Originally Posted by superfire

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Bb messenger uses data. It is pin-to-pin messenging.

hehe, that's how you got the blue tooth, hehe.

Bro, no matter what impression you were on, any program blackberry rim come out with, will more than likely if not all the time, use data. The reason being is that most people have the unlimited blackberry plan, but may not have much text msgs. Cingular has more rim subscribers than all the carriers, and rim knows Cingular/Verizon will not have any unlimited packages for text msgs (not soon anyways), so rim would not be in their right minds to make a program that used text msgs.

Posted by: ajm086

so i just want to get this straight. Blackberry messenger, on cingular, counts as data. so i can do as much bbm messages as i want and i won't be charged text messages?

Posted by: superfire

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Originally Posted by Jayden0606

I am not sure what exactly you mean.

BB Messenger sends PIN message which it is Blackberry device specific.

Please don't be confused by the text messages. I only mentioned it as "PIN Messages".

I assume you know what PIN message is.

Posted by: Jayden0606

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Originally Posted by superfire

Joking around, under your name, it says "I have a blue tooth" and they change according to the amount of posts.

Posted by: superfire

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Originally Posted by Jayden0606

Joking around, under your name, it says "I have a blue tooth" and they change according to the amount of posts.

Heehee!

Anyway, this is a post related with the PIN message.

http://www.bbhub.com/2006/11/20/pin...ut-to-good-use/

Posted by: tonydrone

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Originally Posted by ajm086

so i just want to get this straight. Blackberry messenger, on cingular, counts as data. so i can do as much bbm messages as i want and i won't be charged text messages?

messenger away. It absolutely will not count as a text/sms message.

Posted by: briareus

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Originally Posted by Jayden0606

Bro, no matter what impression you were on, any program blackberry rim come out with, will more than likely if not all the time, use data.

What's confusing people is that carriers are packaging IM apps on their BB's that do use SMS for IM transport. While RIM might tend to develop apps to solely rely on data, it doesn't mean that the individual carriers will when bundling apps for their particular models.

Posted by: Jayden0606

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Originally Posted by briareus

You don't think it purposely done? Hehe, just kidding ::wink::wink::