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Thinking about getting a BB...some ?'s
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Posted by: Phone_BandiT

Ive been thinking about switcing to a BB for quite some time now but had a couple questions. Ive searched and still wanted to ask.

I'll be using it personally so I guess its BWC, does that mean my mail will still be pushed instantly or will it be every 15mins?

Also, Ill be on tmobile and I remember something about the ports being blocked...is that now cleared up?

Does the web browser have java support and how is it overall?

Is there any BB that has an SD or some kind of memory slot?

Ive checked it out and it seems that the largest storage is 32mb, is that enough for installed apps and emails?

I know some of these questions can be answered through alot of searching on various sites but Ive been reading trying to find out and it they all have too many pages to go through. So if anybody can answer some of these questions, I would really appreciate it.

Posted by: NJBlackBerry

I'll give it a shot; can't answer all of the questions but others will chime in...

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I'll be using it personally so I guess its BWC, does that mean my mail will still be pushed instantly or will it be every 15mins?

Yes, but you can also try and forward e-mails directly to the BB (which will have an e-mail address of you@tmo.blackberry.net). The forwarded mail will arrive instantly.

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Also, Ill be on tmobile and I remember something about the ports being blocked...is that now cleared up?

This is the one I can't answer - sorry; I use a BES so I don't have to worry about this one.

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Does the web browser have java support and how is it overall?

The 4.0 browser has Javascript; I am not sure about Java (I don't think so, but I'll defer to the browser experts).

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Is there any BB that has an SD or some kind of memory slot?

No and I don't think you'll see one soon. The folks are RIM are very concerned about security, and external memory (and "beaming" data) are not secure...

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Ive checked it out and it seems that the largest storage is 32mb, is that enough for installed apps and emails?

I think so; since you can't download music (there is no MP3 player) and the number of applications is really small, 32MB seems sufficient for now. Most of the BBs out there have < 32 MB today.

Just my .02 - hope it helps you out

Posted by: Phone_BandiT

thanks NJ,

Oh, and I meant javascript on the browser. How is the browser compared to mobile Opera and others?

Posted by: T2-T-mo

All ports are now open on Tmobile BB now.

email is pushed 15min or less

Posted by: Mark Rejhon

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Originally posted by T2-T-mo
email is pushed 15min or less [/B]

If you use forwarding directly to your @blackberry.net email address instead of POP pulls via your BlackBerry account, the email often shows up in just seconds.

Posted by: Phone_BandiT

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Originally posted by Mark Rejhon
If you use forwarding directly to your @blackberry.net email address instead of POP pulls via your BlackBerry account, the email often shows up in just seconds.

Thanks Mark, I've been trying to find out which is which forever. I keep hearing its 15 mins or so and that didnt really impress me much since I can always fetch it through pop like that.

Posted by: cl347bv

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry7250/4.0.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1)

I have a bb 7250 I am playin around with and its sick. I mainly use it for sms and a phone so emails I don't know about. Its a VZW device so that tmo network question... I dunno

Posted by: cl347bv

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry7250/4.0.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1)

I am retarded with this wap thing. Sorry for the double post. Not sure how that happened

Posted by: primea

Additional question ...

What do you guys do with large attachments? Are there apps that will open and let a user edit Office files?

I am worried with attachments that are more than a meg in size ...

Posted by: Mark Rejhon

Attachments are not automatically downloaded, so they won't bite you in your rear unless you open these attachments. The attachments are automatically downloaded when you "View" them.

Often, 1 megabyte attachments do not actually download a full 1 megabyte to the BlackBerry. For example, images in Word documents are replaced with links to images -- so basically, a 1 megabyte Word document can become a 100 kilobyte text document containing links to images you manually download.

Same goes for images. If you get 1 megabyte images, they are automatically downsized before being downloaded to your BlackBerry, so a 1 megabyte image can become a 50 kilobyte image (or less).

Sometimes a big attachment will really bite you, I know people have exceeded over 100 megabytes of usage just because they get lots of attachments and actually view them. But if you don't view the attachments, the attachments don't count in your plan. You can simply use the attachment logo as a notification to tell you to go to a desktop computer and view the attachment from there...

However... regardless of what you do... I NEVER recommend anything less than an "Unlimited" BlackBerry plan. There are so many things that a BlackBerry likes to spontaneously download, especially under BlackBerryOS4, that it is slowly becoming hard to avoid data usage charges on an old-style "1 megabyte" data plan.

Some "Unlimited" plans (i.e. Rogers) are capped at 25 megabytes (This is hopefully going to change soon), but judicious avoiding of attachments and excessive HTML browsing, will ensure you stay under the limit, at least until Rogers increases the cap...

Posted by: primea

Thanks for the info ...