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Blackberry vs. any phone+email client+roaming ?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2001
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Needing to check email while abroad I've been recommended a Blackbeery. Looking for more info I've visited their website, wikipedia, and general googling and I can't find how their network operates.
OTOH I have a perfectly good nokia 6230 that has an email client.
So my questions is, is there any difference between a Blackberry and my phone on roaming ? Thx
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Clinically Insane
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I think it depends on who you have your blackberry telephone and data service with.
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Senior User
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The Blackberry service is carrier independent. All you need is data service and a signal from whoever the carrier for your device is. The transmission of emails is handed off from the wireless carrier to Blackberry's service which handles the delivery.
I have several customers who use Blackberries overseas and it works fine. Just make sure the device you get has a signal and data service where you are and the emails will get there. That's the beauty of Blackberry, their system doesn't care who the wireless carrier is, they find the device based on its PIN when it is activated and the email delivery is guaranteed. That independence is also why the wireless carriers like them becuase they do not have to maintain anything specific to supporting Blackberries.
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I'm not going to call an ambulance this time because then you won't learn anything.
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Join Date: Oct 2002
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The agreement was very lucky for Blackberry owners. Money often brings agreement. 
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"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill
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Blackberry is perhaps one of very few gadgets I would not be cought dead with. It's an image thing 
Good luck on your trip BTW Sarc.
cheers
W-Y
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Mac Elite
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thx for the replys everyone
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:: frankenstein / lcd-less TiBook / 1GHz / radeon 9000 64MB / 1GB RAM / w/ext. 250GB fw drive / noname usb bluetooth dongle / d-link usb 2.0 pcmcia card / X.5.8
:: unibody macbook pro / 2.4 Ghz C2D / 6GB RAM / dell 2407wfp - X.6.3
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