Blackberry luanched on O2 Pay and Go

[pctech]

It'll be next year before I look at one now.

[Simon]

It should be charged up by then. 

[pctech]

 

[Simon]

It has, and there isn't, but there will be a new OS by the time you get one, so it might. 

[esh]

No it does not download the whole email. Just the first couple KB. Large ones will request more when you scroll down (it will say More: xxxxx bytes). This is true on the 9 series Blackberry anyway.

You can also tell it to disable or ask about roaming data services when it detects roaming is enabled.

[pctech]

Thanks for all the info.

[Simon]

Thanks for the confirmation, Esh.  I could only see the settings on mine, as I'm not in a BlackBerry tariff at the moment, so couldn't test it.

[pctech]

Broken the habit eh Simon?

[Simon]

Just fancied a change, Mitch.  On an HTC HD2 at the moment, but would go back to BB without hesitation, when the next generation come along.

[esh]

I'm on contract in this case. When I had a problem a few months ago (the 8800s had a strange email receiving issue) rather than figure out what was wrong they just sent us new handsets at £300 a piece for free. I guess that is the upside of contract...

[pctech]

O2 always seem to be very good but I wouldn't have touched BTCellnet with a barge pole.

[Simon]

I was with BTCellnet originally, before they became O2.   

[Rik]

Me too. Then I was Tango'd.

[Simon]

 

[pctech]

I did think about joining Orange a couple of times when they were quite an innovative company and launched things such as Wildfire (if that had come to prepay I probably would have) but alas they fell in line with the others when they were borged by France Telecom.

[Rik]

I joined when they were still Hutchison, Mitch, hence I still have my free fax number.

[pctech]

Its funny though Orange turned out quite sucessfully where Three (which i still owned by Hutchison) is completrly rubbish from what I can gather.

[Rik]

I still wonder why H sold Orange only to re-enter the market.

[pctech]

I seem to remember there being a competition issue with Vodafone, Orange and Manesmann (probably not spelt right) in Germany

I'll do a little research on the net and find out.

[Rik]

I remember Mannesman as printer manufacturers.

[pctech]

Yes so do I.

They manufactured the Tally line of printers I think, don't know whether the telecoms op was linked.

[Rik]

Me neither, Mitch. One day they were a brand of printers, the next a mobile operator. I missed something in between.