crackberry email

[CADsortaGUY]

my wife needs a new phone and she likes the crackberry pearl but I don't want to pay for the extra email service($40/mo sprint) when a windows mobile phone(or palmOS) will connect to exchange with a basic data plan.

Does anyone know how it all works? Do I have to pay for this service if she wants to get her corporate email? Someone said that since the company paid for the server push seats that the individual plans don't need to get the extra crap. I figured they were FOS but I figured I'd ask here.

I think I've got her liking the Centro also but if we don't have to pay the extra charge for the crackberry email/exchange push then I suppose we'll get the pearl.

 

[kedlav]

Set up outlook rule to forward all email to gmail -> Poll gmail every fifteen minutes -> save forty bucks a month

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: kedlav
Set up outlook rule to forward all email to gmail -> Poll gmail every fifteen minutes -> save forty bucks a month

But the replying doesn't work. She actually will use her corp email from her phone so I'd like that to work "normally".

 

[blackangst1]

AFAIK the Pearl doesnt follow the same BB mail rules as the others. I know Sprint and TMobile's Pearl doesnt.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: blackangst1
AFAIK the Pearl doesnt follow the same BB mail rules as the others. I know Sprint and TMobile's Pearl doesnt.

What are you talking about? ALL BB's run the same OS/have the same core email functionality.

You have two(and a half) options:

- Connect it to the Corporate BES (Assuming you have one)
- Use BIS to connect to Gmail/other
- Use native Gmail client

She'll be able to reply from gmail and I think you can set up gmail to show another 'from' address, so this may well suit.

 

[blackangst1]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: blackangst1
AFAIK the Pearl doesnt follow the same BB mail rules as the others. I know Sprint and TMobile's Pearl doesnt.

What are you talking about? ALL BB's run the same OS/have the same core email functionality.

You have two(and a half) options:

- Connect it to the Corporate BES (Assuming you have one)
- Use BIS to connect to Gmail/other
- Use native Gmail client

She'll be able to reply from gmail and I think you can set up gmail to show another 'from' address, so this may well suit.

I wasnt talking about OS. I was responding to the OP: but I don't want to pay for the extra email service($40/mo sprint).

My reply still stands: With a BB (except a Pearl) a seperate BB data plan must be purchased, which is MUCH more than a regular data plan. Especially for those on SERO. $30/mo compared to $70. BB have their own data plan, except Pearls.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: blackangst1

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: blackangst1
AFAIK the Pearl doesnt follow the same BB mail rules as the others. I know Sprint and TMobile's Pearl doesnt.

What are you talking about? ALL BB's run the same OS/have the same core email functionality.

You have two(and a half) options:

- Connect it to the Corporate BES (Assuming you have one)
- Use BIS to connect to Gmail/other
- Use native Gmail client

She'll be able to reply from gmail and I think you can set up gmail to show another 'from' address, so this may well suit.

I wasnt talking about OS. I was responding to the OP: but I don't want to pay for the extra email service($40/mo sprint).

My reply still stands: With a BB (except a Pearl) a seperate BB data plan must be purchased, which is MUCH more than a regular data plan. Especially for those on SERO. $30/mo compared to $70. BB have their own data plan, except Pearls.

That's just the way the carrier offers the phones. It is entirely possible to run ANY BB on a data plan WITHOUT BB service. It is entirly possible to run a ANY BB for voice only. The Pearl, Curve and 8800 are identical, bar very minor detail.

 

[CADsortaGUY]

dbz - yes, their corp has BES. But to use that I'd have to buy the expensive data plan(if I'm reading things correct). But also it's possible to respond via gmail using a "fake" from(to mimic the corp email address?)

I guess I'll have to go to a sprint store and talk with someone to see what the best options are. Plus it'll give her a chance to handle the phones and such.

 

[blackangst1]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: blackangst1

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: blackangst1
AFAIK the Pearl doesnt follow the same BB mail rules as the others. I know Sprint and TMobile's Pearl doesnt.

What are you talking about? ALL BB's run the same OS/have the same core email functionality.

You have two(and a half) options:

- Connect it to the Corporate BES (Assuming you have one)
- Use BIS to connect to Gmail/other
- Use native Gmail client

She'll be able to reply from gmail and I think you can set up gmail to show another 'from' address, so this may well suit.

I wasnt talking about OS. I was responding to the OP: but I don't want to pay for the extra email service($40/mo sprint).

My reply still stands: With a BB (except a Pearl) a seperate BB data plan must be purchased, which is MUCH more than a regular data plan. Especially for those on SERO. $30/mo compared to $70. BB have their own data plan, except Pearls.

That's just the way the carrier offers the phones. It is entirely possible to run ANY BB on a data plan WITHOUT BB service. It is entirly possible to run a ANY BB for voice only. The Pearl, Curve and 8800 are identical, bar very minor detail.

It is entirely possible to run ANY BB on a data plan WITHOUT BB service.

As you said, it depends on the carrier. My Sprint example is one case, Verizon, I believe, has BB data pricing the same as regular data, but they are two different services. Except for the curve and Pearl, as I said.

It is entirly possible to run a ANY BB for voice only.

Of course. I thought we were talking about data though *shrug*

 

[uli2000]

If she has BES at work, you can run Blackberry Connect. From what I understand, it emulates BB os to connect to the bes server. You get you BB email and can pin message with it. Works with pretty much any WM 5 or 6 phone. I had it working on my mogul, but dont have BES access, so I deleted it.