Blackberry SIM in an iPhone

2blue4u · 22 Apr 2008 at 23:31

I have a t-mobile blackberry with unlimited data as part of the plan.

Would it be possible to put this SIM into an unlocked iPhone - and what functionality would I lose?

thanks

Rhys · 23 Apr 2008 at 10:48

A sim is a sim. Blackberry is just a service that is enabled. Without a blackberry client on the iphone you would lose the blackberry functions. Youd just get calls/texts and it would use gprs data.

2blue4u · 23 Apr 2008 at 10:54

I was thinking more along the lines of what iPhone features wouldn't be available with something other than a non-O2 iPhone SIM?

AFK_Matrix · 23 Apr 2008 at 11:22

Well I had/have a blackberry curve. Addmitdely my contract with tmobile was setup with another phone but I did put the Blackberry plan on my account etc and it works fine with my Iphone. One thing I would advise is to put a Web n Walk package on your account if you don't have one otherwise you might get really high data usage to pay for.

EDIT: The only feature you won't get is the Visual Voicemail, all other features will work.

spirit · 23 Apr 2008 at 20:58

why pay for blackberry if you dont have it though, you are just giving RIM money... just get tmobile and web n walk - remove bberry.

AFK_Matrix · 24 Apr 2008 at 16:10

Mate give me a chance!! Only got the iphone on a week ago just not had the time

aph · 1 May 2008 at 18:16

spirit said:
why pay for blackberry if you dont have it though, you are just giving RIM money... just get tmobile and web n walk - remove bberry.

So... if I'm going to get a Blackberry from T-Mobile (with Web and Walk). Do I still need to pay RIM a subscription to use a certain Blackberry feature. How much? Also which feature is this?

spirit · 1 May 2008 at 20:37

yeap you do, i believe they give you a discount on the wnw but all in all it comes to like 10pounds pm or something i'm not sure - although a quick look at their website shows that they seem to have added flext+blackberry plans (you lose the 25% off)... you need to pay to have instant email, blackberry msgr basically all the stuff that blackberry is used for...

aph · 2 May 2008 at 00:55

spirit said:
yeap you do, i believe they give you a discount on the wnw but all in all it comes to like 10pounds pm or something i'm not sure - although a quick look at their website shows that they seem to have added flext+blackberry plans (you lose the 25% off)... you need to pay to have instant email, blackberry msgr basically all the stuff that blackberry is used for...

Ahhh right I see. Hmmm they're 18 month contracts. I'll wait for them to get the curve back in stock and see what they can do...