This is great! :)

I hope the other carriers follow-up with a PREPAID BlackBerry plan.

i was so used to the compliments. ooh what kind of phone is that?!? ooh blackberry. ahh tmobile. nice. beautiful. marvelous. now the day has come where metro has inhaled this beast of a phone. so i look forward to things like... mm is that a metro? oh my cousin, sister, brother, aunt, has that phone in red. oh its an ok phone. ahhhhh. se la vi.

Hopefully things like this will cause the major carriers to start reducing thier rate plans. I know the service isn't up to par with the big carriers, but as they catch up the big guys are bound to start losing customers.

I've commented on this in other boards but it's worth saying again...

1 BlackBerry Storm + flashing + MetroPCS $50 unlimited plan = Perfect unlimited package.

MetroPCS will do to Mobile Phone carriers what Vonage did to land line providers. I've had Metro for 2 years before I had to switch, but if they cover your area, I REALLY recommend them. Signal was always good and support was excellent. It's also worth mentioning that Metro is looking to deploy LTE by 2010. It's a no brainer if you are within their area.

I'm glad finally MetroPCS is offering prepaid Blackberry service. I luv their unlimited 411 for $2.00

I work for Metro, and I've been getting a lot of questions about it, so it's worth mentioning:

Since the 8330 isn't an AWS band phone, it will only work in the Legacy markets (see: Florida, Texas, Dallas, Atlanta, Detroit, San Fran). Anywhere that runs off of AWS (IE, New York, Boston, LV, LA, Ect.) won't be able to use one in the area...

Additionally (to wagonis), MetroFlash doesn't support the Storm. I wish it did.

I think they’re a little late with this release. Especially when the New Curve 8900 was released last month. And the price for this device, as with all Metros, is ridiculous. 449.00 can probably get you an unlocked BB Storm on Ebay. It would make more sense in a consumers standpoint to get a BB from a company that’ll give you a rebate or something… I don’t think they’re going to make any sales for this phone.

I live in a metro pcs area and they offer unlimited roaming for just $10 more a month so for $60 +tax you can have unlimited EVERYTHING & coverage.

Downside is the delay in receiving txt msg from other carries.

Big plus is that metro will take almost any phone from any carrier & flash it for their network. I am sure that now they will even take BB's & keep the BB functioning

@Shinrar - Thanks for that info, guess that whole scenario is out of the question.

@GBZ - Hit craigslist, get yourself a Curve from Verizo/Alltel/Sprint for about $200, have it flashed to Metro and you just saved $200 (after flashing fee).

Double post

Great price for the plan, but the buy in sucks. Really $449 i don't think so

Also, their stupid contracts with customers and with phones! I'm glad metro and others are sucking their customers away to the $50 flat. Within a few years ATT and the rest of the big jerkoffs will have no choice but to lower their crap to compete. The day will come when we all will buy the phone we want and pick he company we want with no contracts and everybody around $50. I'm also tired of apps for sale. thousands of apps for sale for services they should include with phone service anyway. Other countries are ahead on prices. STOP USING ATT AND THE BIG JERKOFFS and they'll wake up and learn!!! Stop going crazy for their newest crap the day it comes out. Lets have some pride and hold back a little. We all want the cool stuff, but lets show them we can live without and won run to their new stuff just because is cool and new, ok? THANKS! Ham Hands Bill