 Another "no fly"
Live in an area where Alltel has recently become Verizon. Currently have 8830 and 8130 (Pearl) -- both are Alltel-branded. Expect great pain when trying to convert my plan to Verizon (have lots of war stories of trying to activate Verizon branded equipment on Alltel network) and fully anticipate a pitch to slide me into a contract in exchange for a shiny new Verizon device. Fan of contracts I am not.
Have attempted the 8800-specific and generic installs on the 8830. 8800-specific produces the freeze phenomenon and the Generic looks good but accepts no keyboard input (so can't even find out if it will attempt to connect to the server). The Pearl-specific install does the freeze job on the 8130. My 8830 software version is 4.5.0.127
Have a pro license agreement and a bunch of supervisors that would love to be OTA (and Outlook-free) syncing, but our data service coverage heavily favors the big V. Not keen on deploying BES -- have enough on my plate already and have not budgeted for this.
Love to hear other's opinions on alternate approaches I could take.  |