We can think of a wide variety of BlackBerrys we'd rather have, but let's take a good, hard look at what T-Mobile UK is proposing here: basically, it wants you to shell out £179.99 (about $265), and in exchange, you get the venerable
BlackBerry Pearl 8110 plus a full year of unlimited email and web access. That works out to something like $22 a month for unlimited on-device data -- and on top of that, you'll be paying as you go for voice minutes, texts, and MMS messages. Not a terrible deal by any stretch, but we'd characterize this one less as blowout pricing and more as creative deal packaging. Oh, and we'll take a
Curve 8900 with that, T-Mobile, thankyouverymuch.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Eric @ Apr 24th 2009 12:28PM
I think this is a great deal for those who rarely talk but want a device for full email and data capabilities.
They're basically selling the phone for less than the regular MSRP and giving a year's worth of email/data to boot.
I'd like to see something similar here in the States. TMO USA are you listening?
cl347bv @ Apr 24th 2009 12:46PM
i think it would be an awesome idea, plus a bolt-on for minutes, i use data most often, so this is pretty attractive to me,
but something like this with say, 700 or 1000 total anytime minutes would rock.