It might be difficult to fathom now, but there might come a day when your current BlackBerry loses its mojo. No, I’m not talking about the day when you BlackBerry falls in the toilet. I’m talking about a necessary cutting of your data — and therefore BIS — plan. Maybe you just need to cut that cost from your life. Maybe you’re switching to a different phone but still want access on your BlackBerry. Whatever the reason, getting email on your BlackBerry without BIS is a pain. Really, doing anything on your BlackBerry without BIS (or BES, or course) is a pain. There are a few ways you can retain access, though, even though your messages application will remain empty. If you search around a bit, you might find pointers to such services as Funambol and Tiggit. From my experience, however, these services still require you have carrier data plan. Accessing them from WiFi only simply does not work. That leaves users in quite a bind. When testing this I even tried the Gmail mobile app, figuring that would solve the problem. No dice. Even typing mail.google.com into the browser didn’t work. That last one really got me. Is it even possible to access email on your BlackBerry via WiFi? To be clear, if you have a regular data plan — say from a prepaid provider — but not a BlackBerry data plan, you can access things such as Tiggit, Funambol, and Gmail. You can also check out this post for a few more ideas on activating your BlackBerry with a data plan, but without BIS. Clearly, if you have a data plan accessing your email is fairly simple. If you don’t have a data plan and rely on WiFi? I haven’t found a way yet. So consider this akin to a forum thread. Chime in with your ideas. I’ll even update the post if we get some positive tests.
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I’d even go as far as saying that BIS is NOT for certain groups of professionals. It might depend on what you do. Personally I do NOT want to get interrupted most of the day. I want to focus on my job. I look at my email inbox when I decide to do so. Sales persons might think different.
What is sad is, sales persons in the phone shops always tell you, you can’t have Internet without BIS, when using a BlackBerry, which is wrong. When I got my first BlackBerry I thought the sales person must be new. So far I have talked to more than 10 of them and it seems each single one of them firmly beliefs a BlackBerry with Internet but without BIS or BES is impossible. Either they pretend to be stupid to make the BIS-sale, or they really are stupid.
Maps, Gmail, Wordpress App, .. all works fine for me no BIS and no BES.
I have been using snap tu. Works great without BIS. I have had a prepaid plan from tmobile for over a year now using my 8120. 9900 should come tomorrow!! Gonna do the same with that phone.
Hi
there are ways to get so !
normal carriers data plans run on apn services
you can just go to options>Advanced Options> tcp/ip
and then enter the Apn of the carrier that you are using this does require a data plan but these plans are way cheaper than bis !!
Well with T-mobile its just a regular blackberry data plain cost the same as any other plan just like anroid data plan and it works fine for me. They just have to provision the internet for which ever phone you use. but its all the same price. unless you request bis or bes for your business.
Well, BlackBerry handsets can be configured to use normal data plans. Mails, browsing, chatting, app worlds etc will work. The only problem is u cant use BBM. Other than that most of the apps will work. For more information subscribe to Sushindro H Sharma on facebook.