[skyrocket9]

Hi everyone, I own an Iphone 4s and a bold 9900 and use them both. I just switch my micro sim card from the 4s and carefully center it into the 9900. This works because I have a BB data plan, and the BB data plan will work on any smart phone. The BB data plan costs the same as a Smart phone data plan.

So,if you have family members that have iphones, you could technically call the provider and change their Smart phone data plan to a BB data plan and their smart phone will still work without any extra costs. This will give rim more subscribers and more profits!

Thanks

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[trsbbs]

ah,,ok.

Good luck with that.

Tim

[CHIP72]

Here I thought the easiest way for RIM to increase their profits was to produce a product that many people want to buy.

[jrohland]

Hmmm. Screw the carriers out of a couple bucks a month and add to RIM's cash flow. No change in your service. I don't see much downside. Would be interesting to see the carriers looking at billing reports and wondering why they have a bunch more BIS accounts than they have BlackBerrys in service.

Might try it with the one none-BB phone smartphone I pay for.

[jegs2]

Here I thought the easiest way for RIM to increase their profits was to produce a product that many people want to buy.

Concur. I've zero interest in increasing RIM's profits. If they come out with a phone I want, I'll probably pick it up. If that serves to increase their profits, then okay.

[xandermac]

Hi everyone, I own an Iphone 4s and a bold 9900 and use them both. I just switch my micro sim card from the 4s and carefully center it into the 9900. This works because I have a BB data plan, and the BB data plan will work on any smart phone. The BB data plan costs the same as a Smart phone data plan.

So,if you have family members that have iphones, you could technically call the provider and change their Smart phone data plan to a BB data plan and their smart phone will still work without any extra costs. This will give rim more subscribers and more profits!

Thanks

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Not on AT&T. Doesn't work.

I switched back to T-Mobile because they do support this.

[menaknow]

Rogers doesn't support this either.

Different APN or something I was told between blackberry and iPhone...

[xandermac]

Rogers doesn't support this either.

Different APN or something I was told between blackberry and iPhone...

U.S. carriers are a strange breed, for example.

AT&T actively block a BIS plan from working with the iPhone, they have an iPhone specific plan (there is a workaround but I couldn't get it working). That same iPhone plan works with Android devices & my Palm Pre... The BIS plan worked with neither android nor my Pre...

T-Mobile allow their BIS plan to work with all devices except T-Mobile branded Android phones (which require an Android specific plan or the browser won't work). However, with an unbranded/unlocked [non T-mobile] Android phone the BIS plan works perfectly.

Makes me wonder if there isn't some revenue sharing going on.

[skyrocket9]

Rogers does support this, Im with Rogers we have 4 phones in my house, 3 iphones and my bold. All four of the iphones have 3gb bb data plans, my bold has 6Gb bb data plan. It works I assure you

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