New to Blackberry/unlocking/everything PLEASE HELP!
Hello people of CrackBerry. I just recently got interested in the new BlackBerry Storm for obvious reasons, and am really interested in upgrading. The only problem is that I am 17, on an AT&T Family Plan with 4 other members of my family, and don't have an option to switch to Verizon. I am eligible for an upgrade since my phone is old, and was planning on upgrading to the iPhone 3g but after seeing the Storm I am officially obsessed with it! I just started looking into the whole unlocking process and possibilities, but a lot of it sounds like straight jibberish to me because I'm not very intelligent when it comes to the deeper specs of phones and cracking them and all that. I have a few questions about my options:
-Can the BlackBerry Storm (North American) be unlocked for an AT&T family Plan?
-Are there any extra fees or problems that might occur if I did this (i.e. phone locking such as the bricking of iPhones)?
-Is it really as easy as calling the number and saying you want to unlock it because you are going to be traveling?
-Assuming it just involves unlocking and putting my SIM card in, does that mean that my family plan will just cost the same as it does now + a data plan that I would be adding (AT&T has a $35 data plan for BlackBerries)?
-Does AT&T's Data plan fully support all the mechanisms and applications on the BB Storm?
-Is there anything I should be worried about? Any reason why I shouldn't do this?
Thank you for any help, as I am again very new to this subject of phones.