Verizon wireless - Blackberry experiences?

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Blackberry experiences?

Scott Ehrlich

2006-06-23, 7:33 am

I'm now looking into getting a Blackberry (possibly the 7130e) when my
contract expires. Anyone have real-world experiences they wish to share?
My main interests would be 1) phone-first; 2) web browsing

For web browsing, is it possible to configure the BB with a proxy server
of my choice instead of using Verizon's? If so, how do I gain access to
those setting?

Thanks.

Scott

Lou@its.invalid

2006-06-23, 7:33 am

Scott Ehrlich wrote:

> I'm now looking into getting a Blackberry (possibly the 7130e) when my
> contract expires. Anyone have real-world experiences they wish to share?
> My main interests would be 1) phone-first; 2) web browsing
>
> For web browsing, is it possible to configure the BB with a proxy server
> of my choice instead of using Verizon's? If so, how do I gain access to
> those setting?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott

Google is your friend. Try it, search google groups.

Lou

Isaiah Beard

2006-06-25, 10:33 pm

Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I'm now looking into getting a Blackberry (possibly the 7130e) when my
> contract expires. Anyone have real-world experiences they wish to share?
> My main interests would be 1) phone-first; 2) web browsing

Scott,

I had the 7130e on Verizon. It was indeed a good phone, as well as a
decent blackberry device. As for web browsing, I wasn't too fond of
doing that on the 7130, but then I'm tned to be very picking about my
web surfing experience and to tell you the truth, few smart devices have
really impressed me web-wise.

> For web browsing, is it possible to configure the BB with a proxy server
> of my choice instead of using Verizon's? If so, how do I gain access to
> those setting?

You're stuck using RIM's proxy server, unfortunately. Such is the
nature of Blackberry; just about everything goes through RIM.

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