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What exactly do I get? How do I get it?

I recently changed over from another carrier to VZW. I have the BB8330 with the personal email and web plan.

Looking at the Plan on the site, it looks like I get unlimited data.... but what does this really consist of? Can i use the GPS and BB maps whenever i want without occuring additional charges? How about web browsing? Can I use the Google chat and yahoo messenger without getting charged?

How about the email? Is that just access to an existing email via my ISP or an online email? or do i get a VZW email address included with my plan? if so, how do i get it and set it up?

My old carrier had an instant chat where the customer could chat with a rep and get answers to these questions and educated about different things, and it really disapointed me that Verizon does not have an instant chat feature like almost everyone else out there does.

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nmchileman

Your data plan includes unlimited data for everything. GPS, Applications, Browsing, Instant Messeging thru AIM, Yahoo, Gtalk, MSN, ICQ, Blackberry Messenger. Also includes unlimited email access for up to 11 email accounts; 10 personal free email accounts (Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail, etc) plus 1 email from your device which is a @vzw.blackberry.net email address.

The whole point of a Blackberry is the email. It's all pushed directly to your device. When you get an email in your Hotmail/Gmail inbox you receive it instantly on your phone. No need to pull up a browser and go and find it.

There should be an "Email Settings" icon somewhere in the mainscreen. Click that to start setting up your email accounts. At that point you'll create the username password for your @vzw.blackberry.net account.

serpentine5

Thanks nmchileman,

Question, does the account site that shows a list of texts made and received also keep a list of emails? Say I have a gmail account set up, will it log my emails too?

StreetDocRN

Hi,

Welcome to the forums. One thing to add to nmchileman's comments is about Google Mail or Gmail. Visit here at Blackberry's web site for some info on the new Gmail plug in for Blackberry devices. It's pretty cool.

Doc

nmchileman

MyVerizon will not keep a log of your emails. It doesn't keep track of any of your data details other than how much data you've used in a particular session and the date/time.

You can't even get a copy of your email logs from RIM. The only place it will be kept is at Gmail.com on Google's own servers as any other Gmail account would, Blackberry or not.

serpentine5

how do i get it to STOP texting me when i get a voice mail?

And how do i get it to stop requiring a password when i call voicemail? Like get it to know i am calling from my phone and it save the password?

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