Flex Crackberry question

[Dooker]

Does it make sense, if you are already a Cingular wireless customer, to "migrate" your existing cell phone number into your Flexjet Blackberry? Or is it better to keep a work number and a personal number?

I ask because I just got hired on and I've never had to lug one of these things around.

Gracias.

 

[walshsfly]

Your BB has to have a Dallas number (972, 214, whatever the rest are), and its on a corporate discount. I lug 2 phones around and its getting to be a pain but I am stuck in my current contract for another year with another company.

 

[bailey3083]

Does it make sense, if you are already a Cingular wireless customer, to "migrate" your existing cell phone number into your Flexjet Blackberry? Or is it better to keep a work number and a personal number?

I ask because I just got hired on and I've never had to lug one of these things around.

Gracias.

As a FO your crackberry will be a better paper weight then anything else. Mine only goes off on the first day, last day or when I am without a Capt. Otherwise the Capt does all the talking on the phone. I still have my sprint service and carry 2 phones but when I am a Capt I leave my crackberry in my bag because all info goes thru him.

Bailey

 

[Dooker]

First question: since I already have Cingular, and a 214 area code, can I "migrate" my existing number to the BB and make the BB the only phone I need to carry, and let the company pay for it?

Second question: Do guys do that? And if they do, is it a hassle to haul the thing around on days off?

 

[CL300Pilot]

Yes, you can just migrate it over. That is what I did. No, it is not a hassle. It just becomes like any other phone. Just buy a good holster for it so it does not drop on the ground all of the time. I bought one at Best buy for around $25. Welcome to Flexjet. What is you fleet?

First question: since I already have Cingular, and a 214 area code, can I "migrate" my existing number to the BB and make the BB the only phone I need to carry, and let the company pay for it?

Second question: Do guys do that? And if they do, is it a hassle to haul the thing around on days off?

 

[tathepilot]

simple answer... if both #'s use the same technology, dual NAM your berry.. 1 berry, 2 #'s... foward 1 NAM to the other so you don't have to switch back and forth between the two NAM's to get calls from the NAM that is not in use...

 

[Dooker]

Thanks for the welcome, CL300Pilot. Ill be on the 604. I'm looking forward to it.

And for tathepilot: what's a NAM? Are you saying you have two numbers? One for the BB, one personal?

This's all kinda new to me. I hope the Challenger isn't this complex.

 

[Club ORD FO]

I have two cingular phones, and keep them on separate bills. I set up the Crackberry to forward all calls to my "normal" phone, that way I don't have to carry the crackberry when I am off.

 

[79%N1]

Is it so hard to call the thing a "Blackberry", which is the actual name of the device? It's the same amount of letters to type.

 

[Club ORD FO]

ha...dude... do you have one?