I live in israel and someone gave me a unlocked verizon BB 8820 to use. the phone was never used in the USA. not even turned on.
popped in a local sim card and made some calls and sent sms. that was the easy part
now to get email.
I have tried using desktop redirector. the pin gets identified but no mail ever gets pushed to the phone. do i need to be connected to the verizon network for DR to work ? what am i missing ?
I could setup a BES server. Would i still need to be connected to verizon for email to get pushed to me ? i have data service from a different provider.
Like Morales said, you need to have a data plan. it can be through BIS(29.99/mo), or BES(not sure of the price(39.99/mo I think). Without either of these two, you can't get email pushed to your phone.
After finaly speaking to someone at the local mobile phone compnay (cellcom) the picture seems to be as i suspected.
blackberry requires a data plan (i knew that) but not just any data plan but one that connects to a special data server to give you connectivity (no relation to bis or bes) i think the reason why BB needs the special server is because the BB uses it's PIN to identify itself for many functions and only a special BB data server can do that.
what about those guys who just pop in a local sim and they have everything ?they are getting it via data roaming. and that you either have from a world wide data plan w/ free roaming (costs about $60 a month) or you have a usa plan (about $10) and you are paying a huge roaming fee.
end of story and probably end of my bb experiment. on to a nokia or htc phone.
