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Maz

Guru
Does the radio on my blackberry use analogue (free) signal or does it use internet?
Does anyone know?
 

calibanzwei

Well-Known Member
Location
Warrington
Regular AM/FM? Just normal radio.

EDIT: Should be normal radio - just reading further into the murky world of Blackberry's. Easiest way to tell - does the radio work without headphones? The headphone cable acts as an aerial to pick up the AM/FM signals.
 

Archie_tect

De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
Location
Northumberland
A plug for O2... renewed contract for 3 iPhones 3s through O2 for Business... was paying £78/month for 3. Replaced with 3 new 4s [or whatever they're called] for £60/month with an extra free sim card for another phone/iPhone on the same group network with unlimited Broadband/internet.
 

bof

Senior member. Oi! Less of the senior please
Location
The world
Using a move to another network as a starting point for negotiation, got 3 Samsung Galaxies and a deal that has knocked 40-50% off the monthly bill from the fruity one. I had to agree to 18 months - but the retail price of 3 phones is around £1200 so I was OK with that.
I Use Android on Wifi a lot as if you want to look up something at home quickly its way quicker than firing up the Windows laptop. I can be getting a weather forecast for example within 10-20 secs of walking through the door.
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
Does the radio on my blackberry use analogue (free) signal or does it use internet?
Does anyone know?
I did a quick search and it appears that only the Blackberry Curve 9220 has an actual radio built in. Other models get radio programmes via the internet. If you are accessing the internet via Wifi then that wouldn't be an issue, but via a phone signal it could well be. Data usage is a combination of bitrate and how long you listen for.

A 32 kb/s stream would use roughly 14 MB/hour or 1GB in 72 hours of listening.
A 64 kb/s stream would use roughly 28 MB/hour or 1GB in 36 hours.
A 128 kb/s stream would use roughly 56 MB/hour or 1GB in 18 hours.
A 256 kb/s stream would use roughly 112 MB/hour or 1GB in 9 hours!
 

redjedi

Über Member
Location
Brentford
I've been with the same company for around 8 years now. I don't get free phones from them, if I want a phone I buy it. As a consequence I'm a valued customer and pay £10 a month for 300 mins, 300 texts and unlimited* internet.

* I will suffer a service degradation after 1gb but won't actually be stopped from using the internet.

You should be able to get a better deal than that if you don't take the free phones.

I get 250 mins, unlimited texts and unlimited data* for £10 per month through GiffGaff and I don't have to be tied into a contract

* real unlimited, I'm just not allowed to tether a laptop/computer to it.
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
Well bu**er me :unsure:

EDIT: http://crackberry.com/blackberry-os-71-brings-fm-radio-blackberry-curve-9360-and-9380
Is it a case of all are capable and the hardware needs only be activated via the OS?!
Told you... murky...
Ha ha - that's funny! I wonder if it was a case of trying to differentiate different models by not enabling the radio circuitry in them and then the word got out, embarrassing them into enabling it later OR ... had they just not got round to it when the other models were first released? :whistle:
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
You should be able to get a better deal than that if you don't take the free phones.

I get 250 mins, unlimited texts and unlimited data* for £10 per month through GiffGaff and I don't have to be tied into a contract

* real unlimited, I'm just not allowed to tether a laptop/computer to it.
I've just been given a Nokia Navigator, which is better than the cheap and cheerful phone I've been using up to now. I was thinking of scrapping the other phone and using the Navigator instead because it has GPS and cameras built in, and the screen is better (I can't read the old one outdoors, except in gloomy conditions).

It started me thinking about changing from Orange PAYG to something like GiffGaff but I don't like what I'm reading on the GiffGaff forum!

Any suggestions for a GiffGaff-like SIM-only deal for (say) 200+ minutes, 300+ texts, 1GB+ internet on a decent network? Ideally, I would like to be able to tether my Galaxy Tab to the phone's internet via Bluetooth and many deals seem to ban tethering.

Another question - if you have a X mins, Y texts, Z GB deal, how do you keep track of your usage to avoid going over the limits and incurring extra charges?
 

Paul J

Guest
Looks like I will be shopping around as I have been with 3 a while. They sent me a txt saying that my bill is rising by 85p per month and my contract expires in September. I currently pay £15pm for a Nokia E63
 
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