I now carry a BB and a phone, only because I've got to keep my Verizon contract and not a pay fee, well not to metion i talk to a lot of people on Verizon so i have the lowest plan there is (with unlimited nights weekends and mobile to mobile) then tmo for my bb. And well I pay the same price for both as I did for my 1 VZW bB
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I always have my 8700c and my Razr on me. Both in my pockets. One for business and one for personal. Family plan...shares minutes + 2 different numbers. if a phone had 2 lines, i'd be on it in a heartbeat!
I have a seperate phone and Blackberry as well. The phone is a simple Motorola V180 and the BB is a 7780. I can't stand using BB's as phones. I tried using the 6210 that I had before the 7780 and hated it. Never went back. If I decide to upgrade to a 7100 series BB then I might drop the phone, but I'm not sure. I'll probably hold out for a while and see what RIM pulls out of their hat next. The 7780 still works just fine so there's no rush.
Then there's the Dell Axim X51v that I carry around too.
As it turns out one of my coworkers is getting a 8700c to replace his 7100g, so when that's done I'll be picking up his 7100g and using it to replace the V180. Good deal as then I can see how much I like SureType before Cingular gets the 7130. While I have the voice and data plans combined I'll probably switch back and for between a few different BB's just to tinker with them.
BB7290(no voice plan) for school email, pda, sms/txt messaging, web browsing, instant messaging & razr(w/unlimted nights & weekends and unlimited tmo to tmo but no sms feature on this plan) for talking only lol.
Used to carry 7290 & RAZR, but when I saw how good the phone was on the 8700, I switched everything to it. I still keep the RAZR around for those nights/weekends when I don't need email and want to travel light.
I use a 7100 on the weekends and my 8700 during the week but would really like to have a small flip like a razr for phone calls and one of the bb's for email and txt msgs all the time. I thought about adding one of the 9.99 lines to my cing acct and having my calls forwarded to it so I would have a separate phone for calls. The only problem would be when I make a call from it the new number would show on everybodies caller ID and confuse the heck out of them.
Have I got a deal for you..lol I have a black cingular razr that I just replaced with 8700c.
8700 in the right front pocket. A Garmin M4 Pocket PC (for the best integrated GPS, Personal PIM , 4GB SD card installed music and movie player ) in the left front pocket.
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I was doing this for awhile with my old 7290 and a (now defunct) Motorolla phone but hopefully with the 8700 I can just use one. It was kind of a nuisance so I am looking forward to the convenience.
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Carry two devices. I work for Cingular (Manager of the Network Operations Center), so I have to both my BB 8700c and Samsung SGH-D357 PTT phone on me at all times (that and I get free service so why not). We have 5 managers here at the NOC and we all carry BB and PTT. We are on conference calls almost all day long and respond to over 100 emails a day (damn my thumbs hurt).
Carry two devices. I work for Cingular (Manager of the Network Operations Center), so I have to both my BB 8700c and Samsung SGH-D357 PTT phone on me at all times (that and I get free service so why not). We have 5 managers here at the NOC and we all carry BB and PTT. We are on conference calls almost all day long and respond to over 100 emails a day (damn my thumbs hurt).
When will Cingular offer a PTT BB, with EDGE.......and a full keyboard. OK....a PTT 8700?
I've got two 8700's - a "c" and just got a "g" today. Sounds crazy I know, but I've been changing up my TMobile phone so many times looking for just the right one - it was the 8700!. When I need to wear a suit, I swap out the 8700c's sim card into a Motorola SLVR. Ain't life complicated?
Question for you guys who swap out your SIM from your 8700 to another phone. What happens to emails that get sent to you while the SIM is in your 'regular' phone? Do they somehow reach the phone? And when you switch the SIM back to the 8700 do they then appear there if they were sent prior to putting the SIM back?
Also, in Canada, we don't have number portability yet.
