[mav2000]

I have faced that twice in the last 2 months of BB9000 usage and each time I just press down on the ball and move it upwards, and presto its solved...

[maverick555]

can anybody tell what is the current price of Curve 8320
and howz the phone overall?

[funda2max]

Originally Posted by maverick555

can anybody tell what is the current price of Curve 8320
and howz the phone overall?

I use 8310, 8320 = 8310+WiFi. In my opinion, 8310 is a good phone, decent battery life and rugged body. May be you should try newer curve 8520?

[maverick555]

thx any idea wats the current price of 8310 and are there any softwares that dont work with 8310(msngrs etc.)

[quickdraw]

I would advice against the 83xx series phones, for just saving a couple of grand you lose out on a much much newer and feature rich os. And new hardware ofcourse. I feel the price point of the 8520 is excellent for anyone looking to buy their first (or new) berry. Although I am yet to check out how good the optical trackpad really is.

[maverick555]

just checked the dummy of 8520 at Mobile store ,feels so cool new ruberised finish is good.
Well im also impressed with the feature list itsa offering at price tag of 15990

[funda2max]

Originally Posted by maverick555

just checked the dummy of 8520 at Mobile store ,feels so cool new ruberised finish is good.
Well im also impressed with the feature list itsa offering at price tag of 15990

Yes, its a good phone but with Airtel lock. Unlocking is available at a price ($25). You can try and negotiate it for little lesser around 15K.

[csentil]

Wow... 8310/8320 for 10K is a good deal. I got mine hardly 2 months back for 15k and that too after shopping around for quite sometime. Prices keep dropping on the 83XX models.

8310/8320 are good fones. Battery life is good and its very rugged. Simple to use and configure. Supports almost all the iM's.

if you have too many applications open you will run out of space at times. 8310 with the GPS on at all times will eat the battery.

Biggest grudge is they don't support Flash!

[jgsolo27]

Originally Posted by funda2max

I use 8310, 8320 = 8310+WiFi. In my opinion, 8310 is a good phone, decent battery life and rugged body. May be you should try newer curve 8520?

No, 8320 = 8310+WiFi-GPS!!

[funda2max]

Originally Posted by jgsolo27

No, 8320 = 8310+WiFi-GPS!!

Yes, My bad! Thanks for that.

[ntomer]

Originally Posted by Sam Kapasi

No it is not. Believe me I can confirm that it is not.

After using BB services for 3 years (unlimited plan), I got an iPhone. I removed my SIM card and inserted it in the iPhone and nothing worked. Put the same SIM back in my BB and I could surf and chat and receive mails.

I tried calling and explaining to the airtel guys who insisted that my GPRS was on and everything should work. Finally I realised that nobody understands what is going on.
I called 121 and requested that my MO be switched on. I was informed of a fixed monthly charge plus x amount per MB etc.
The next day everything worked on the iPhone. I then called 7070 and requested to disconnect my BB services. They did not do it and I got charged for both BB and MO. later they disconnected my BB services.

After I lost my iPhone I went through the same rigmarole in reverse. Please do not confuse MO with BB. Using a connection with BB, you can surf the internet, only using BB handsets. Use the same SIM with a BB connection in a regular GPRS handset and you canot surf, send or recieve emails. For that you need MO.
With MO you can send recieve data, surf the internet and use the phone as a modem.

OK, so BB services will not work on other phones and MO will be needed.

But will MO work on a BlackBerry phone, without BB services?

The scene is, I have a AirTel MO connection, which I use on a PalmTreo 750. Now I am gonna buy a BB storm but do not want to avail BB services (push mail is not really needed, POP works fine for me). So will my AirTel SIM with MO enabled, let me surf the net and configure POP mail on BB?

Please reply urgently, I want to buy this phone asap.

Cheers

Nitin

[discobiscuit]

Originally Posted by ntomer

So will my AirTel SIM with MO enabled, let me surf the net and configure POP mail on BB?

By default, no.

Unless there is someway around it which i highly doubt.

[quickdraw]

Hey Nitin, it can be done. BB can work fine on MO if you dont want to use push email. Get it home and we will help you get it configured.

[ntomer]

Hmmm... two conflicting answers!!!

>> discobiscuit

Have you ever tried and telling from experience or is it just a guess.

>> quickdraw

If BB can be configured to work on MO, is it a straight-forward configuration. Like my last four phones - Noika E61, N73, E71 and Palm Treo 750, downloaded the MO settings themselved and net and mails worked without any explicit configuration, will I need to do something else for a BB storm?

The reason I want to stick with MO is - I pay ony 99 per month for unlimited data download, BB will turn out to be about 8 times more expensive, not really worth it.

Thanks

Nitin

[quickdraw]

Yes they will work, but you have to understand most of the legacy applications (the inbuilt email client, bb messenger, bb maps etc) wont work on the MO connection. But you can install the GMail App to pull emails and also other apps to configure your other accounts. The Messenger apps also do work but some might not. I am not really sure (some of the legacy messenger apps) but there are all in one apps like IM+ etc that work with all the clients so that can replace having GTalk, Yahoo etc running simultaneously. The configuration is pretty straight forward. You will need the APN (Access Point Name) Port setting (if any) and Username/Password (If any).

Like I said ill be glad to help you out with it, let me know what all you intend to run. Also take a look at some of the previous pages of the thread there are a lot of useful applications and utilities listed there. Also many people had the same problem as yours and that has been discussed earlier as well. I can see you luckly have a old gprs plan which is very very cheap. You're lucky and should not change the plan because now-a-days most of the plans are quite expensive. Also any specific reason that you're going in for the storm? You should consider the new 8520, its priced very very well and I feel is much better for business use. Storm is more of a multimedia oriented BB and the Storm 2 is due soon, so you will have resell loss because of buying a product at the end of its life cycle.

Regards.