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Blackberry Pearl advice needed
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Posted by: Nastronomical

A buddy of mine wants to get the blackberry pearl off ebay and use it on cingular. Will he be able to install a broswer and use it via a media max package? also what about sms and mms msg'ing?

Posted by: grdella

As long as it is unlocked or cingular branded he will be fine.

Posted by: tonyquan

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Originally Posted by Nastronomical

A buddy of mine wants to get the blackberry pearl off ebay and use it on cingular. Will he be able to install a broswer and use it via a media max package? also what about sms and mms msg'ing?

it is possible:

http://www.blackberryforums.com/bla...pip-no-bes.html

but if your friend did that, they wouldn't get push e-mail, which is the main reason people usually want a blackberry...

Posted by: grdella

why wouldn't push email work. If he sets it up with cingular it should work just fine

Posted by: tonyquan

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Originally Posted by grdella

why wouldn't push email work. If he sets it up with cingular it should work just fine

Blackberry push e-mail specifically requires a Blackberry plan. His friend wants to sign up with a Media Max plan, which doesn't provision you for Blackberry push e-mail service.

The Cingular Blackberry plans are here:

http://www.cingular.com/cell-phone-...kBerry+Services

all of the plans other than the 4MB offer unlimited data (browsing, e-mail), but don't include any bundled SMS/MMS.