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04-18-2009, 05:09 AM
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...and to add "ya mutha!" to injury....
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Originally Posted by dandrzejewski
I just called business care's BlackBerry helpdesk to complain, and the guy was clueless to it.
It's pretty ridiculous that I paid upwards of $450 for my Bold, and I pay almost $100/month on top of that, and they have the gall to advertise right on my home screen. I'm going to be sending them a letter to complain.
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Hey dankarlinski, when you write your letter make sure you mention that not only were they advertising on your half a grand phone (sounds even better than $500, eh?) the products they put on are at or past their demo period so you can't even try them! I loaded Scrabble and it said my demo period expired. I tried MobiTV and it said I had 5 min left from my trial period. Like, "are you kidding me?!!!"
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04-18-2009, 05:57 AM
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I haven't tried all these but they appear to be links to download the actual applications. Lame.
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04-18-2009, 09:36 AM
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Are these freebies, trials or apps you need to buy? I clicked on one link, got a download page but it timed out.
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04-18-2009, 09:53 AM
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mgerbasio- a little of it all. wiki mobile appears to be free, mobile banking is definitely free but not all banks use it. here's a link from at&t that outlines what banks use this service - AT&T Mobile Banking | Wireless from AT&T, formerly Cingular.
most are demo's that require you to buy to use.
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PalmPilot LifeDrive--> PalmPilot paper weight --> Pearl --> Curve --> Bold (.247 down to .221 and back up to .247 and right over to .266)
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04-18-2009, 10:17 AM
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Thanks.
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04-18-2009, 11:30 AM
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I just went through and hid them all - AT&T sucks for putting this crap on my phone.
Theoretical question: If I had an unbranded / unlocked phone purchased directly from BlackBerry, would AT&T have the right / ability to just download crap like this to that phone?
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04-18-2009, 12:07 PM
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If you have AT&T service, they will send their service books to your device.
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04-18-2009, 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by jsconyers
If you have AT&T service, they will send their service books to your device.
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04-18-2009, 12:47 PM
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Talking BlackBerry Encyclopedia
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Did they possibly throw in a service book for visual voice mail with all this terrific crap?
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04-18-2009, 03:43 PM
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Bad news for me, this push hid the BB Maps icon again. How do I get it back? Reinstall?
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04-19-2009, 11:12 AM
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Did they possibly throw in a service book for visual voice mail with all this terrific crap?
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Nope, still no VVM... Its not on OLAM either... Maybe ATT will adopt .266 and then throw it out there as soon as they make it official? But who knows.
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04-19-2009, 12:13 PM
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I just went through and hid them all - AT&T sucks for putting this crap on my phone.
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I just put them all into an AT&T Folder. That way I won't see them until I open it back up. |
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04-19-2009, 02:25 PM
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Talking BlackBerry Encyclopedia
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Did they possibly throw in a service book for visual voice mail with all this terrific crap?
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Nope, still no VVM. Still not available on OLAM either. Hopefully ATT will adopt .266 and release VVM when they make it official... Hopefully.
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04-20-2009, 07:54 AM
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I haven't tried all these but they appear to be links to download the actual applications. Lame.
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Well at least your links worked. I've tried all of mine just to be curious, and NONE of them worked. I keep getting an error that states the "internet isn't available". Funny thing is I can go right to any of my browsers and connect just fine.
Oh well, thanks for the heads up that this is nothing more the a scam to get you to buy something. |
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04-20-2009, 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by BBNumber1
Bad news for me, this push hid the BB Maps icon again. How do I get it back? Reinstall?
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Not sure that would help. I tried adding BB Maps to QuickLaunch - trying to run it from there tells me that BB Maps has been disabled. However, BB Maps will run from within WeatherBug.
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04-23-2009, 12:52 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dandrzejewski
I just called business care's BlackBerry helpdesk to complain, and the guy was clueless to it.
It's pretty ridiculous that I paid upwards of $450 for my Bold, and I pay almost $100/month on top of that, and they have the gall to advertise right on my home screen. I'm going to be sending them a letter to complain.
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Let me know how that works out for you, because I am sick of the same xxx349;xxx295;xxx297;xxx355; from AT&T! I even bought an unlocked, unbranded phone from Europa and the stupid service books are still sent.
So its the SIM card that does this? If I put in a Rogers or T-Mobile I won't get the AT&T stuff, but I'll get their networks, right? How do I prevent it, when I have an unbranded phone? How can I permanmently delete service books so it won't come back? |
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04-23-2009, 12:58 PM
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You get the service books from the provider that gives you service. In your case it's AT&T. There's no way to permanently delete them as they will eventually be pushed back to your device. The fact that you have an unbranded/unlocked devices means nothing.
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When you take things for granted, the things you are granted, get taken.
Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until it starts to work.
Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
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04-23-2009, 03:48 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dandrzejewski
I just called business care's BlackBerry helpdesk to complain, and the guy was clueless to it.
It's pretty ridiculous that I paid upwards of $450 for my Bold, and I pay almost $100/month on top of that, and they have the gall to advertise right on my home screen. I'm going to be sending them a letter to complain.
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Jeeze! you Yanks get screwed!
my Bold was $0 on 24month agreement, and i pay no more than $60/month.
Im not so sure Britain is so "Rip off" After all!
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