Interesting fact about ATT Wireless data plans...

[Shyatic]

So anyway... I have a Samsung Blackjack which was on the ATT PDA Plan. It was something like $50 a month for unlimited data and 1500 text messages.

After doing a lot of homework, I switched my plan online to be the Media Max Unlimited plan ($29.99) which gives me unlimited data and texts. The data is the same thing as the PDA plan, even though on the phone they say "oh it won't work!" (total BS).

So for all of you on a Blackberry plan, or PDA plan, or Goodlink plan, switch to the media max plan. If you are heavy users though, they might flag your account, so be careful! I don't have an issue since I rarely use the PDA.. I'm much more of a texter, but the unlimited text plan is $20, so I figured for the additional $10 I'd get unlimited data too.

 

[morkman100]

The Blackjack is a smartphone, not a PDA phone, so you should have been on MediaMax to begin with.

Also, pretty sure you need a Blackberry plan when you use a Blackberry (well, to use the Blackberry email service anyways).

 

[Shyatic]

No, you don't. My brother changed his blackberry to the Media Max plan as well, and his email continues to work just fine.

 

[morkman100]

Originally posted by: Scribe
No, you don't. My brother changed his blackberry to the Media Max plan as well, and his email continues to work just fine.

I don't have a Blackberry so I can't speak for experience, but isn't Blackberry service it's own email account? You couldn't just buy an unlocked Blackberry phone and throw in a different SIM card and use Blackberry service, could you?

 

[AgentJean]

Originally posted by: morkman100

Originally posted by: Scribe
No, you don't. My brother changed his blackberry to the Media Max plan as well, and his email continues to work just fine.

I don't have a Blackberry so I can't speak for experience, but isn't Blackberry service it's own email account? You couldn't just buy an unlocked Blackberry phone and throw in a different SIM card and use Blackberry service, could you?

Blackberry email uses a "special" blackberry server on your corporate side. Which means your company has to be willing to invest the money. I don't get what's so special about the Blackberries.

I am about to sync my emails on the companies Exchange server(just enable web access) on my Tmobile MDA over Edge and I don't have to pay any special Crackberry fees or fees to access corporate email.

 

[RichieZ]

Originally posted by: Scribe
No, you don't. My brother changed his blackberry to the Media Max plan as well, and his email continues to work just fine.

You need the BIS or BES server to use a blackberry.

Regarding mediamax and the blackjack, yea it works and you can have pretty heavy usage. I've used ~2GB one month with no troubles, in addition to my blackjack I also have a 3G datacard.

 

[Josh123]

Originally posted by: Scribe
So anyway... I have a Samsung Blackjack which was on the ATT PDA Plan. It was something like $50 a month for unlimited data and 1500 text messages.

After doing a lot of homework, I switched my plan online to be the Media Max Unlimited plan ($29.99) which gives me unlimited data and texts. The data is the same thing as the PDA plan, even though on the phone they say "oh it won't work!" (total BS).

So for all of you on a Blackberry plan, or PDA plan, or Goodlink plan, switch to the media max plan. If you are heavy users though, they might flag your account, so be careful! I don't have an issue since I rarely use the PDA.. I'm much more of a texter, but the unlimited text plan is $20, so I figured for the additional $10 I'd get unlimited data too.

It's showing $39.99 for me.

 

[gsethi]

Originally posted by: Scribe
So anyway... I have a Samsung Blackjack which was on the ATT PDA Plan. It was something like $50 a month for unlimited data and 1500 text messages.

After doing a lot of homework, I switched my plan online to be the Media Max Unlimited plan ($29.99) which gives me unlimited data and texts. The data is the same thing as the PDA plan, even though on the phone they say "oh it won't work!" (total BS).

So for all of you on a Blackberry plan, or PDA plan, or Goodlink plan, switch to the media max plan. If you are heavy users though, they might flag your account, so be careful! I don't have an issue since I rarely use the PDA.. I'm much more of a texter, but the unlimited text plan is $20, so I figured for the additional $10 I'd get unlimited data too.

its not a secret....many are doing this for ages. I have the Treo 750 and am on the $20 media max 200 plan.

AT&T reps even know this but they know that if they force me to upgrade to the $50 (or is it $60) PDA plan, I will just take it off completly. Better to get extra $20 in revenue than $0, right ?

 

[foghorn67]

Originally posted by: AgentJean

Originally posted by: morkman100

Originally posted by: Scribe
No, you don't. My brother changed his blackberry to the Media Max plan as well, and his email continues to work just fine.

I don't have a Blackberry so I can't speak for experience, but isn't Blackberry service it's own email account? You couldn't just buy an unlocked Blackberry phone and throw in a different SIM card and use Blackberry service, could you?

Blackberry email uses a "special" blackberry server on your corporate side. Which means your company has to be willing to invest the money. I don't get what's so special about the Blackberries.

I am about to sync my emails on the companies Exchange server(just enable web access) on my Tmobile MDA over Edge and I don't have to pay any special Crackberry fees or fees to access corporate email.

we don't like web access.

 

[George P Burdell]

T-Mobile $5.99 T-Zones hack > *

 

[bearxor]

Yeah, it's old news... Been like that for a while. Too bad it's still not as cheap as Sprint. I'm tempting a switch but pay about $50 a month for voice and unlimited data/text on Sprint. Almost double that to move to any other carrier.

As for this...

Originally posted by: morkman100
The Blackjack is a smartphone, not a PDA phone, so you should have been on MediaMax to begin with.

AT&T defines a smartphone aqs something running Windows Mobile with no keyboard. As soon as you slap a QWERTY on it they upgrade it to PDA status.

 

[BZeto]

I have a Blackjack that I got synced with my company exchange server, but thats really the only data I use it for. It was a pain in the ass setting it up because I had to actually install our mail server certificate on the phone itself.

For some reason webpages either take forever to load or dont load at all when I try browsing the web. That's going through cingular's proxy server, haven't tried using their other APN that isnt proxied.

 

[AgentJean]

Originally posted by: foghorn67

Originally posted by: AgentJean

Originally posted by: morkman100

Originally posted by: Scribe
No, you don't. My brother changed his blackberry to the Media Max plan as well, and his email continues to work just fine.

I don't have a Blackberry so I can't speak for experience, but isn't Blackberry service it's own email account? You couldn't just buy an unlocked Blackberry phone and throw in a different SIM card and use Blackberry service, could you?

Blackberry email uses a "special" blackberry server on your corporate side. Which means your company has to be willing to invest the money. I don't get what's so special about the Blackberries.

I am about to sync my emails on the companies Exchange server(just enable web access) on my Tmobile MDA over Edge and I don't have to pay any special Crackberry fees or fees to access corporate email.

we don't like web access.

With web access enabled on Exchange you can sync a PDA over ActiveSync as if you were physically connected to your workstation via USB cable.