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8700g can't text??? WTF?
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Posted by: dappervirgo

Question...

the army has issued out 8700g's to many high ranking people. well one came to me today (to admire my curve) but also to ask how to text...now the curve is my first berry but i felt comfortable using the 8700g navigating with the scroll ball and everything but wait, is it possible the army had taken out the option to text message? she complained that she didn't see where she could do it and i mean, i went to the menu under messages and i saw compose email and bla bla bla but nothing for text...do companies do that sometimes?

Posted by: MegaMan X

if the 8700 is connected to a BES, and the army's BES policy prohibits texting, then yes, there would no texting

good read for you:
http://blackberryfaq.com/index.php/BES_Users_FAQ

Posted by: dappervirgo(disregard)

Quote:

Originally Posted by MegaMan X

if the 8700 is connected to a BES, and the army's BES policy prohibits texting, then yes, there would no texting

good read for you:
http://blackberryfaq.com/index.php/BES_Users_FAQ

thank you for that

Posted by: rdef

WTF WTF, man

Posted by: DubDub

Security is paramount. Can't do anything unless the BES says you can.

Posted by: rambo47

I read recently that the military cracked down on Blackberry usage with über-restrictive IT policies.

Posted by: triskele

It's gotta be a BES restriction. I never had a problem when I was using an 8700g.