Helpfully, TMO USA is catching on and spread this BB Prepaid service nationwide. If they don't they will continue to loose people to MetroPCS and Boost Mobile.

We have this phone at Best Buy In South Asheville NC
you get 600 minutes and unlimited data & e-mail for $65 a month.

Kevin you are kinda wrond. I saw a sign here in Houston TX at my nearby Best Buy about a prepaid BlackBerry Pearl as well.

I also saw this in the Best Buy Ad for Mankato, Minnesota.

ACTUALLY ON SUNDAY I PICK UP A NO CONTRACT BERRY FROM BEST BUY.

I LIVE IN CHICAGO AND I WAS SURPRISED WHEN I SAW THE AD.

GOOD DEAL FOR PEOPLE THAT DONT LIKE CONTRACTS.

ROBERT Q.

Saw pre-paid Blackberry Pearls at a Target in Columbus, OH near Ohio State's campus.

Also in Best Buy Ad for Tampa, Florida.

ima go after work today and find out about this in my town surprisingly i havent heard anyone talking about any of this around here in jersey but i know metro pcs has crappy service up here terrible and they wont flash ur phnes either they claim they dont have the resources to do it my friend on metro tried to flash a dare and BB and they wouldnt let him ill post any info i find out laters guys

It is available in any state that has T-Mobile.

The Best Buy circular for Fort Wayne, Indiana has the prepaid T-Mobile Pearl as well, at the $299.99 pricepoint, with a 2 per customer per visit limit like all prepaid phones. And the Best Buy stores here only have T-Mobile prepaid, not T-Mobile contract. I still wouldn't get a SureType BlackBerry at any price, though. (SurePress FTW! Especially after 4.7.0.148!) For the record, the contract carriers that Best Buy carries here are Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint... IIRC, in some areas, Best Buy carries AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile contract (VZW being prepaid only), and in others, they may carry all four carriers on contract.

This makes me wonder if VZW, AT&T, and maybe even Virgin Mobile USA will follow suit with their own prepaid 'Berries, and if the Curve 8520/8530 will be mainly a prepaid BlackBerry. And one can only guess that RIM is going to make an AWS CDMA tri-band Curve "8540" for the likes of metroPCS and Leap/Cricket, too (even though we don't have either in Fort Wayne yet, though Leap's partner Denali Spectrum has AWS spectrum holdings here).

They are selling it out here in Chicago as of this week

Actually Best Buy in Northern California started this deal about 2 weeks ago, I'll send in some pics this week :)

dang!! i took my time posting a comment while finding the napolean dynamite soundtrack and went from 1st comment spot to like 25th haha Crackberry is FAST!!!

Any info on whether there are changes to the Pearl II over the 8100/10/20/30?

Tmobile is getting desperate

I have had the BIS on flexpay for over 2 weeks, 300 My faves, BIS unlimited plus 400 msg for $65 a month.

You can also check out Virginmobileusa.com, they have the Curve 8530 for $299.99 as a pre-paid phone for just $35.00 a month. Includes 300 minutes and unlimited text, email, web access. kickback code is "hLs5nMNV"