This will probably turn me into a pariah, but I just dumped my data plan. I kept it long enough to qualify for the rebate, then I dropped it like hot armadillo guts.

Sorry, but I just didn't use it. It was nice to click onto the Internet once in awhile, during a rare idle moment, but most of the sites I went to wouldn't read anyway (for example, hotmail required some kind of java support I didn't have), and the ones that did were painfully slow. I felt like I was using my mom's Pentium I.

And I never bothered to set up the email feature. I can wait until I get to a computer to check my email.

I use my 8700 for the easy texting, the calendar, the good address book, and the memo pad. I have a razr too, but I just can't give up the qwerty keyboard on the blackberry.

So am I the only fool out there who thinks $40/month is too much to pay to spend 10 minutes downloading a weather forecast or football score once every two weeks?

no it seems logical, though i would hope you didn't pay full retail for the device.. then THAT would be a huge waste to pay a great amount of money up front and then not use half of the device's features...

Would it be too much if I called you a gadget junky?

Meh. Whatever works for you. I'd switch to a carrier that offered better Blackberry data plan pricing if I wanted it but felt that $40/month was too much (though in reality coverage is always my top concern). YMMV. Who cares what other people think? They're not footing the bill...

seems kind of silly to have a blackberry if you aren't going to use the data features, especially email. whatever works for you, though. it's your $.

My Blackberry allows me to be in contact whether there's a PC around or not. Since I work from home, I'm not chained to my desk. I can can go out and cut firewood, chat, reply, receive alerts..

You're right though, if you don't use it for email or chat, it's not worth paying for the web browser to check sports scores etc. I always found that to be pretty much a waste.

Actually, my 8700c was free after the rebate, it's not like it cost me anymore than my wife's bottom-of-the-line Nokia.

Ya $40 samolies is a bit much, glad I am on T-Mo for $19 smackers

I actually dont use email much on my 8700... BUT I do use Berry411 quite a bit (saves the $2 411 charge each time I use it)... I use BBWeather a few times a day... AND most important I love and use PDSports several times a day for sports scores... For these reasons I cant do without the data connection. To me at least it is well worth $19 samolies a month for the above stated uses... Now if it was $40 a month.... I might have to reconsider

I agree, I'm glad I'm with Tmobile also.. I Need my data, must have for me.

yeah switc to TMo lower rats. I need my data for a lot of resons Cingular is robbing people blind you could prbaly port the device to tmo All yow would have to di sync your BB to a box install the th TMO verssion of BB os an chagl the sim from a cingular to TMO I don't think you would have to have it unlocked to pull this off because I can have MyTMo BB detect Cingulars towers and make emergancy calls
I'm betting you can only do this on GSM_edge devices that USE sim cards.
Inother wors presuming your not still locked in a contract with cingular
You could pull this off Juist make sure yo use Manual network detection to change networks anybody care to back up the validity on my Claim an tech solution to save thid guy son $$?

No need to change the OS to T-Mo as Cingular's (or any carriers) os works just fine on any BB

Yes the device would need to be unlocked for it to work on T-Mo... It's locked to Cingular just as T-Mo's are locked to T-Mo...

Yeah we need our data
An yes your a gadet junkie from what you've just told us seems to try to be living beyond your means.
No offense. I only ys and invest in gadets th I know will use about ALL the funtions
But I also live on a budget too. Don't tell mey you signed up with cingular just to get the BB.
BTW razr's break so easilly
Sell it on ebay

Why do you pay 40 on cingular? Are you on cingular? I pay $29 for unlimited data with BIS. 39.99 plus $5 off with voice plan. on cingular. Did you get stuck with a BES plan? I admit its still a little high but every bit helps.


(you know what to put here)business.cingular.com/businesscenter/plans/dataconnect.jsp

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8700/4.1.0 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/100)

True and someone just "wants" a bb and not know exactly he/she wants to use a bb for; additionally, the op seems interested to get the rebate. May be an amazon rebate and make the final price of the bb to be zero.