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Originally Posted by Berry One
Define 'not work,' please. If all you need is access to your own WiFi you do have it: just configure blackberry WiFi connection to your router and it should connect.
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I was just relating what I was told by the T-Mobile rep. In my experience, the WiFi works even if you don't have a SIM card in the Curve, but only with the built-in browser. No other application works with the WiFi. That seems to be the experience of most other users posting on this forum, too.
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… you have two options: use RIM services and pay for services, or find third-party applications written for blackberry that use WiFi TCP/IP connection and do not use (do not pay for) RIM services.
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As for applications that use the WiFi connection, from other reports on this forum, it sounds like any of the available apps can use the WiFi if you purchase a data plan, but if you don't have the data plan, nothing but the built-in browser works.
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BlackBerry does require monthly fees to use RIM services. Your WiFi connectivity between device and wireless router should be working without paying monthly fees.
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While I can connect to my own access point and browse (using the built-in browser), none of the other applications can use the WiFi, even though it is connected. I am told that purchasing the BlackBerry data plan unlocks this, but no one has yet even attempted to justify the fact that it is locked in the first place.
This conversation has prompted me to go back and look again at LogicMail. The latest version appears to work a little better than the version that I had, but I still get a lot of "Unknown Errors" when downloading certain messages. However, the fact that it works at all seems to confirm your assertion that applications can be written to work around T-Mobile's seeming lock on the WiFi connection.
If everyone had to "do the research" like this, no one would every buy anything because by the time the research was complete, the item would be obsolete and no longer available.
Frustrating !!
~ j.