Ha you had almost the same phone 
Good old Sony Ericsson had unmistakeable charm! I miss them a bit 
What do you mean by B.B. Internet? Can’t it just use a standard SIM with 3G (or 4G/LTE) or WiFi?
When I used to work phone retail, there had to be a special Blackberry data package add-on which was required for things like BBM to work. That was on all the old Blackberries that ran their original Blackberry OS, it didn’t apply once they moved to the QNX operating system (with the Z10, Z30, Passport etc), and then later on to Android with their most recent devices.
If that’s truly the case and it require some specific support on the carrier side, for any nostalgic people feel free to reach out to me and I’ll probably figure out a way to make it work with my SIMs and give you one that will work. 
Shilling completed. 
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This is because Blackberry were handling the compression on their end. Danger and T-Mobile did a similar thing with the Sidekick.
I can’t imagine too many people calling a network to add the BB package these days - the last Blackberry that actually needed it was the Curve 9720 which was released in August 2013!
Is there any documentation on this? If so I could get it running just for the fun of it.
Try and get a copy of BES
The wider thread reminded me just how much I miss Blackberrys - Peak Smart phone era for me still, even with iPhones.
And an era of cool android phones where manufacturers actually cared about looks of the devices and physical features. I still miss real keyboards on phones and that feeling of sliding the keyboard up to send a message. Now all we have is just a range of glass clones where the only real difference is the manufacturer logo and maybe the camera.
I think a thread like this existed previously but since we’re here again…
Phone I loved the most: Torn between the Motorola Milestone (android) and the bold 9900 - If the latter still actually worked I’d possibly still use it each day.
Phone I hated the most: Sony Xperia X - Awful, awful phone. So much promise, so little delivered. It constantly crashed out and overheated
Phones I’ve kept coming back to: Apple iPhones - starting with the 4, moving onto the 8 after a long break back with android, and now on a 15 pro max which I hate because the camera is actually somehow worse than my old iphone 14 pro max. I’m not sure what to do next really.
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I still have my original iPhone from 2007 but it’s probably not worth much unboxed.
I had one of these back in the early 2000’s, before the days of Blackberry and well before today’s smartphones, about the time when Nokia was the prevelant brand.
The entire lid flipped open to reveal a QWERTY keyboard and there was a stylus in the back.
The screen was touch, but very basic with a soft layer on it, not capacitive.
I think I had a monochrome version.
In terms of online banking, I was a Barclays customer at the time and their basic online banking offering actually worked over the (WEP/WAP?) 2G connectivity, albeit very very slowly 
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