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That's not completely correct. My NEC smartphones didn't. Nor did the early BlackBerrys that I used.
by edent 6y ago
That's not completely correct. My NEC smartphones didn't. Nor did the early BlackBerrys that I used.
- LeonM 6y agoI guess that's why NEC and Blackberry never took off in Europe, as the data usage would financially ruin you. With prices of about 5 euro per megabyte you lived in constant fear of accidentally using data.
- dogma1138 6y agoBlackberry was quite popular in the UK amongst the corporate users, however BBM universally came with it's own data plans and they had their software running inside the cell providers as well as within the organization itself.
- giobox 6y agoBBM absolutely did take off with youngsters for a while - I sold a lot of blackberries to teenagers in the U.K. in 06. Blackberry failed for much same reason it failed everywhere else - much better phone platforms came out very quickly etc.
- dogma1138 6y agoI remember SK feature phones with WAP support that did ask. BB worked slightly different before 3g and it's advancements made mobile internet pretty much "free" for most people. BlackBerry came with it's own data plans and they had they used integrate with the mobile providers on a much lower level than just internet traffic.
- rescbr 6y agoI don't remember Windows Mobile asking for permission to use mobile internet either. So that's why I used a 100 MB modem plan in my smartphone (then 300MB before cheaper regular phone plans became available). Phone calls were 1.5x the pre-paid rate, but using the Internet somewhat freely was better.
- jeffbee 6y agoBlackberry OS definitely did this, and it was brilliant because you could allow the NYTimes application to access news.nytimes.com but not ads.adcompany.com.