[TJhood (Unverified) Posted Aug 18th 2007 7:46PM]

Okay alot of companies charge, got it.. Doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

We need a company to take charge of this and deliver devices and charge only for the services they provide.

So here is the thing, you buy your blackberry 8820 for say $300 from your service provider at a discount from the original cost of $600.. but they have controlled down the hardware so that you can't use anything without paying a fee even though it doesn't require any service to use the feature.

So you intially saved $300 and are now in a 2 year contract.
9.99 x 24 = $239.76 for GPS for 2 years
$50.00 x 24 = $1200.00 for a conservitive data plan even if you are using your own Wi-Fi

Even without the data plan you are still pretty much getting shafted.

wow.. so $1439.76 over two years so that you can actually use the hardware in your phone. This isn't for the actual service you are provided with..

So I say RIM / BlackBerry let me pay the $600 and use the technology how it was made to be used..

[max (Unverified) Posted Sep 9th 2007 5:08PM]

So you are saying that if I buy the international version of the 8820, I can use the WIFI and the GPS without buying any add ons from AT&T?