Thread: Why No Blackberry Like Service for Nokia?
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etuoyo is offline etuoyo
2009-12-05 , 22:00
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Originally Posted by w00t View Post
Why not use one of the many IM services that Maemo supports? Or if you're really desperate, sign up for Ovi and use Nokia Messaging.

Nokia can't control what carriers do. I don't know what it's like in your country, but there are plenty of perfectly reasonable deals in the UK for internet (e.g. with three, etceterea)
I know Nokia can't control what carriers do but why the special treatment for RIM? I am currently on a blackberry contract (got the blackberry for my wife on my upgrade cause she wanted to be able to IM all her friends). Got the N900 sim free and I am sure when I go to 02 or Phones 4 U to say I want to change to an unlimted web contract they would have alot to say and probably not allow me to switch tariff. Even if they offer "unlimited" the 500mb may not be enough. Plus will probably be moving to Nigeria soon and the only web contract the phone companies give is for blackberry.

I know you can get msn for example on the N900 but all my friends are using blackberrys. They can't use msn on their blackberrys. If Nokia had offered the same free IM on their phones like RIM did then many of them would have gotten Nokia phones instead.