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I have a question which I am hoping you will be able to help me with. Our company has just installed a vodafone blackberry server and I am hoping to use it with my P990. The thing is I don't want to get a branded vodacrap one. Would you have any idea if an unlocked phone would work with the server? Also would the unbranded one work with the 3G service that vodafone offer, in particular the footie download. I use to have a Z800 and that did not work with vodafone live, but I think that's because the portal could not recognise that phone even though voda supplied the V800. Any ideas or thoughs i would be very grateful
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Posted: 2006-05-22 21:51:00
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Just reread my post and it sounded like I already have the P990....I WISH!!!
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Posted: 2006-05-22 22:07:00
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Your second post basically answers your first. None of us have a P990 yet so pretty much the only answers you get will be guesses!
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Posted: 2006-05-23 00:26:14
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@Gabster, there shouldn't be any difference if its branded or not this is because (for vodafone live anyway) the model number is checked, I had a V800 which worked fine with vodafone live then I de-branded it to a Z800 and live wasn't the same after that. Regarding the blackberry part, I doubt you'd have any problems either
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Posted: 2006-05-23 00:50:44
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@Muppet, not nessarilly some people may have a phone that is not the same provider as the blackberry server...the P990 is not the first phone with blackberry support....
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Posted: 2006-05-23 02:53:12
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You can use any push e-mail enabled phone as long as you use your company supplied sim card. It differs from company to company on how your exchange and bes servers are configured. Vodafone has nothing to do with the BES server. They are only the service provider, ie the airwaves etc. The BES software is supplied by RIM and ties in with your exchange server.
I can see huge competition for blackberry now that Microsoft is launching their windows mobile service as it cuts out additional software and hardware (servers) as the exchange server will now push the mail out directly and that in near real time. In my line of work all this is great as it is less administation work for me and less problems are likely to crop up, as believe me when a blackberry server starts playing up you start thinking about a career in alcholism...
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[ This Message was edited by: Uncle Bob on 2006-05-23 23:54 ]
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Posted: 2006-05-24 00:46:22
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Hi
Must agree with the above post. I dont know what BES has in advantage, but as an IT admin, I am happier with the least amount of software in need for a single process. Here we are talking about Push Email. I have my Exchange installed with SP2, so it now supports Push, and I installed the Roadsync (100USD one time fee), and now I have push email everywhere I go, and I dont need to pay a penny extra after purchasing the Roadsync client. I would never consider installing a BES when Microsoft can do it by itself. I am not a windows fan, but I am a simple solution fan.
Cheers
Ben
p.s. As for Push, the P990 will have the MS Activesync client included by default, so you wont even need to buy Roadsync, it will be just a given to have Push.
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Posted: 2006-05-24 23:21:10
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