Blackberry Phones - Which Networks?

titchard · 1 Oct 2006 at 17:21

Hey Guys,

I am thinking of upgrading my phone, I currently have a Nokia N70 and would like to upgrade to a Blackberry!

Only problem is I can't seem to find any networks in the UK that support it! can anyone point me in the right direction? i'd be most appreciative!

Rich

Dolph · 1 Oct 2006 at 21:14

Orange support it as well, via Orange retail stores.

Euro_Hunter · 1 Oct 2006 at 21:17

And T-Mobile.

titchard · 1 Oct 2006 at 21:32

frakker said:
No offence, have you looked?

Vodafone and O2

I had looked, only seemed to show me the really old ones (the ones with the full qwerty keypad.

Rich

uvarvu · 1 Oct 2006 at 21:45

http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/show/handset/blackberry_7130g/detail

stoofa · 2 Oct 2006 at 10:56

All the UK networks support Blackberry.
We've recently just renewed our contract with Vodafone here at work as they offered us the best deal on the 30 or so Blackberry users plus Enterprise server that we run.
However we did speak to O2 and Orange too and all 3 networks were offering all of the handsets available in the UK.

We find that a lot of our users prefer the full QWERTY keyboard versions as typing e-mail can take so long with the "2 characters per key" keypad.
As the whole idea of having a Blackberry is so that new e-mail is pushed out to you so you can then respond to it, you should find that most of the time you are doing e-mail.
If you find you aren't mainly doing e-mail then maybe Blackberry is not the solution you are looking for ans maybe a "pull" solution would be better than a "push" one.

Yas786 · 2 Oct 2006 at 11:41

Have a look at the SE p990i as well for blackberry use, it has a full QWERTY keyboard as well and mine works well with the blackberry email server i have running at my office.

fish_048 · 2 Oct 2006 at 22:46

I got offered the Blackberry Pearl today by o2. I think they came in yesterday.