Hi all,

I'm searching for someone who has used IM and seen the effects on data usage. I just picked up the 8700r (with Rogers) and sleep with it under my pillow, I love it (was on a 6280). EDGE rocks - very fast.

I'm not on a BES - just a regular user with a personal account with Rogers. Rogers' "unlimited" Blackberry service actually means a surcharge over their max usage is "possible" - which really means "probable" according to the gent who sold the unit to me.

So, I'm wondering - do the messenger services running in the background burn data even when not messenging? From what I've been able to pick up surfing the net, the WAP versions do, as they've got to "poll the server", but if your TCP is set to the appropriate APN, usage is much less as you've got an IP address (I barely understand what I've just written).

Both Quick IM and the new Yahoo Messenger for Blackberry work great with this APN setup on my 8700 - fast and fun. However, I am concerned about leaving it up and running full-time if I'm burning data just by having it going in the background.

There's my long story...so if anyone has any feedback, please enlighten me with your experiences and/or technical wisdom, either here on the forum or via my PIN (that would be cool, I've never gotten a Blackberry Messenger message before!) I am -

Curious Ken at 2039747E