I took the plunge anyhow & changed colors

Glad to hear you're happy with Orange, looks like the unlimited shared SMS is good for something

 

Glad to see you finally joined the dark side.

Did you do it over the phone or in a store? If over the phone, did you try any of those techniques that we discussed?

 

Oh and you guys should go check out the post I did in the Phones to soon be released thread

 

COR stores can do some pretty sweet deals sometimes too. Glad to see you got a pretty good package. From what I've seen when kids can text unlimited their minute usage drops.. but who knows.. It's always interesting to see how many text someone can send with an unlmited package.. Saw a kid the other day that did 15k + in one month. I was like

 

When I had the 3000 message plan, I average 2800 to 2900 a month, all to the same person. Pretty sad.

 

Be careful with the IM, you can get charged data for that too.

 

Congrats on the move Fire...

-Jay

 

Data charges from connecting to what ever provider via Yahoo, MSN, or AIM to sign in and what not.

-Edit-
Found this on the at&t website

Q. Is there a cost to sign in to IM on my wireless phone?

A. Signing in to IM through the IM or Messaging icon on your phone is free. If you access IM through MEdia Net, you will incur data charges per kb of usage.

 

TehJoE234797

Another question ??
If I get someones voice mail and I have the option to page that person and I do. Does that count as a test message??

 

Nah, it works on the SMS platform but it isn't counted as a text. I had a lady one time that wanted me to turn off the option to be paged, rofl.

 

I'll have to check my next bill, as someone did page me via VM a week ago, but I have been charged for it before.

-Jay

 

Check your next bill for about the exact time and date that you got that page and see. As far as I know you shouldn't be billed for that sort of thing because it just works on the SMS platform like your Voicemail Waiting Indicator does.

 

my understanding on this is that AIM can communicate through text messages or data..........these FAQs you mentioned say that if they log onto MediaNet and use the web interface they will be charged MediaNet data..........all phones now have IM programs and the program will communicate with messages........

 

From my understanding if you log on to media net then go down to mail & messaging then go to Yahoo Messenger and sign in, you get charged data. So long as you go through the IM setting on your phone, you don't. And sure, most phones have the IM icons, but some older phone don't have those included and that's how people with those older models would sign in if they wanted to do IM services.

 

It should be easy, Its the only text msg I got all month so far.

-Jay

 

yes..........but it said in those FAQs that you can download the Mobile IM application that contains the protocols for all the IM servers like Yahoo, MSN, AIM, etc...you can get it from MediaNet to avoid paying regular data charges

 

Yeah, I assume they word it that way to cover their ___ if some moron is connecting to media net every time they sign in to IM

 

so all the phones they now sell have the Mobile IM client built in but old phones can download the application from MediaNet..............but you can also use a web-based interface very similar to AIM on MediaNet.......they arent wording anything.....they are telling the truth

 

Yes, exactly.

 

exactly..........people just need to run to their lawyers to ask them to translate to "out of date"

 

Yep, that's exactly it. So long as they go through the IM software on their phone and aren't connecting to media net first then going to the Mail & Messaging section then they will only be charge the text and not data.

 

you are correct......now..........some of the old phones dont have the app built in but you can go to MediaNet to download it